The Sound Differences in Germanic and Non-Germanic Words

Grim was looking at the way in which sounds, especially consonants, changed over time within the indo european languages. He concluded that there were indeed specific sound differences in words found in the germanic and non germanic languages. But more importantly, he discovered that these sound differences were part of a systematic change after they had become separated from the other Indo-European groups. Now all this sounds very technical, so let's look some examples. The first example should already be familiar to you if you've listened to the first few episodes of the podcast. In the earlier episodes, i talked about how the p sound in many of the ancient indo European words had