Hirt's law
Balto-Slavic accent-retraction sound change / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hirt's law or Hirt–Illich-Svitych's law, named after Hermann Hirt, who originally postulated it in 1895, is a Balto-Slavic sound law that triggered the retraction of the accent (or metatony in the valence theory) under certain conditions.[1][2][3]