A statement,
propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which
explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original
position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European
k,
t,
p, became first in Teutonic
h,
th,
f, and
appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on
the preceding syllable; but these sounds became voiced and produced
g,
d,
b, if the accent was originally on a
different syllable. Similarly
s either remained unchanged, or
it became
z and later
r. Example: Skt.
sa
pt
(accent on ultima), Gr.
'e`pta, Gothic
si
bun (seven). Examples in English are
dead by the side
of
death, to
rise and to
rear.
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