Associations to the word «Neogrammarian»

Wiktionary

NEOGRAMMARIAN, noun. Alternative form of Neogrammarian
NEOGRAMMARIAN, noun. (linguistics) A member of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change; or a follower of that school.
NEOGRAMMARIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to the Neogrammarian school.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope