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- German · derived fromJunggrammatiker
- English todayNeogrammarian
From neo- + grammarian, as a calque of the German Junggrammatiker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
neogrammarian
Today it means: A member or follower of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change. Full definition →
German Junggrammatiker