Miller's law proposes that an aspirated consonant in Proto-Greek became deaspirated after a nasal consonant ending an accented vowel. It was identified by Indo-Europeanist D. Gary Miller.
Examples: "rain" < PIE (cf. , , , ) "tomb" < PIE (cf. , ) "clot" < PIE (cf. , ) "amazed" < PIE (cf. ) "cup, bowl" < PIE (cf. )
Counterexamples where, because the accent falls on another syllable or because a laryngeal separates the aspirated consonant from the nasal, the law is not triggered: "navel" < PIE "voice" < PIE "peg" < PIE (possibly exhibiting the Saussure effect)
See also Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
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