Definition of Jakob Grimm

1. Noun. The older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Jakob Grimm

Jair
Jaish-e-Muhammad
Jaish-i-Mohammed
Jak
Jakarta
Jakartan
Jakartans
Jake
Jakes
Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
Jakob Behmen
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Boehm
Jakob Boehme
Jakob Bohme
Jakob Grimm (current term)
Jakob Hermandszoon
Jakob Liebmann Beer
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Jakobson
Jalalabad
Jalen
Jalisco
Jam.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Jamahiriya
Jamaica
Jamaica Channel
Jamaica apple

Literary usage of Jakob Grimm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"In 1813, the elector was restored, and Jakob Grimm was made Secretary of the Hessian ... Jakob Grimm was a philologist in the best sense of the word, ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The law, which is one of the most important of all phonetic laws (see PHONETIC LAW), was first developed by Jakob Grimm (qv), who outlined it in a letter to ..."

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