Hungarian linguist (1913–1996)
Oswald John Louis Szemerényi (; 7 September 1913 – 29 December 1996) was a Hungarian-British historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist. He is best known as the namesake of Szemerényi's law, a potential early sound law in the Proto-Indo-European language.
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Oswald John Louis Szemerényi
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Oswald Szemerenyi
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Oswald John Louis Szemerenyi
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O. Szemerényi admits that reconstructions are used to facilitate comparisons, using one word instead of many IE variants, and cites Hermann’s statement that “complete forms (e.g. *deiwos [=S deva-s]) cannot be reconstructed at all, only single sounds, and even these are meant as approximation only”.