Verner's Law, Part 1 of 3

3-Second Blueprint (English)

1. In Bengal, Sir William Jones compared Sanskrit with Greek and Latin, proposing they descended from a common ancestral language.
2. Building on Rask and Bopp, Jacob Grimm codified Grimm's Law—the systematic First Consonant Shift of stops into Germanic.
3. Germanic forms like Gothic augo and Old English ēage showed unexpected voiced sounds instead of h, motivating Verner's Law.