Grimm's Law and Verner's Law have been framed on the
basis of Sanskrit, which was taken by their framers for a faithful
representative of the supposed proto-Aryan. Now that the theory
is exploded, both the laws have to be recast in the light of recent
researches in comparative philology.

     For instance, the original of bear (E.), fero (L.), and pher (Gk.)
is not the Skt. bhar, but the Tamil poŠu, and likewise, that of con
or ken (E.), know (E.,), and gno (L. and Gk.) is not that of Skt. gnƒ,
but the Tamil kƒ–