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Hermann Hirt
Hermann Hirt (19 December 1865 in Magdeburg – 12 September 1936 in Gießen) was German philologist and Indo-Europeanist.
Biography.
Hirt wrote on German metres ("Untersuchungen zur westgermanischen Verskunst", 1889), edited Schopenhauer's "Parerga" (1890), and then devoting himself to Indo-Germanic philology made special studies on accent, writing "Der indogermanische Accent" (1895) and "Der indogermanische Ablaut, vornehmlich in seinem Verhältnis zur Betonung" (1900). Hirt, who
Hirt's law
Hirt's law, named after Hermann Hirt, who originally postulated it in 1895, is a Balto-Slavic sound law that triggered the retraction of the accent under certain conditions.
Overview.
Under Hirt's law, a non-initial accent was retracted to a non-ablauting vowel, if it was followed by a consonantal (non-syllabic) laryngeal that closed the preceding syllable. The retraction did not take place if the laryngeal did not immediately follow the syllable nucleus, i.e. if the