2. According to the 2nd act Indo-European Non-Germanic voiced plosives [b, d, g] correspond to Germanic voiceless plosives [p, t, k]. Non-Germanic Germanic Non-Germanic Germanic [b] > [p] болото pool [d] > [t] десять, два ten, two [g] > [k] иго yoke ager (L) acre.

words to illustrate the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd stage of Grimm’s Law.

During the period from the 6th to the 3rd century BC people called the Celts spread across Europe from the East to the West. Several Celtic tribes invaded Britain. They came to the Britain in three waves. The first were the Gaels, about 2 centuries later they were followed by the Britons, and the third wave of the invaders the Belgae who came to the British islands in about 100 BC. Economically and socially the Celts were a tribal society. The basic unit of the Celtic tribe was a kinship group or an enlarged family. And the life of the Celts centered round this enlarged family. They practiced agriculture, they were acquainted with the use of copper and iron and they kept large herds of cattle and sheep, which was their chief property and wealth. Celtic people spoke languages and dialects which belonged to the Indo­European family and languages of Celtic origin can still be found nowadays. Thus, people in many parts of England speak Welsh, which is a Celtic tongue. In the Highlands of the Celtic Scotland we can also find some Celtic dialects and some of them are also spoken on the Cornwell Peninsular. Some elements of the Celtic languages can be found in MnE. Most of them are geographical names. Thus, in England there are several rivers called, ‘Even’ or ‘Avon’ which in Celtic means ‘river’. The name of ‘York’ (with the meaning of ‘town’) and perhaps ‘London’