Boukolos Rule Definition
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A rule of the Proto-Indo-European reconstructed language that states that a labiovelar stop (
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Kʷ,
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Gʷ,
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Gʷʰ) dissimilates to an ordinary velar stop (
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K,
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Origin of Boukolos Rule
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The rule is named after an example of such a dissimilation: the Ancient Greek BOUKOLOS RULE BOUKOLOS RULE βουκόλος (boukólos, “cowherd"), which is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European BOUKOLOS RULE BOUKOLOS RULE Reconstruction& , from Reconstruction& (“cow") + Reconstruction& (“herder") .
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