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ablaut::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | vowel, vowel sound |
| Has types | gradation, grade |
Examples of ablaut
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Many nouns and adjectives are derived from verbal roots via suffixes and ablaut.
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Strong verbs ablaut the lemma's nucleus to derive the past forms of the verb.
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For Ablaut in a specifically Indo-European context, see Indo-European ablaut.
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Ablaut explains vowel differences between related words of the same language.
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In PIE there were already several possible ablaut sequences in the verb conjugation.
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In strong verbs the irregularity results from ablaut, which changes their root vowels.
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Although the pronouns themselves are dissimilar, ablaut is not likely to be borrowed.
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In PIE, there were already ablaut differences within the paradigms of verbs and nouns.
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The Indo-European verb system is complex and, like the noun, exhibits a system of ablaut.
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- A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
- In linguistics, apophony (also known as ablaut, gradation, alternation, internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation, replacive morphology, stem mutation, internal inflection etc.) is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).
- The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel
- A vowel change that accompanies a change in grammatical function. Same as "gradation." Sing, sang, and sung.
- The change of a vowel into another vowel in the root of a word, with a grammatical function, usually for no visible phonological reason. Also known as vowel gradation. The alternant stems of English 'strong verbs' (sing ~ sang ~ sung, write ~ wrote ~ written, etc.) are examples of ablaut. ...
- A change made to a vowel or vowels in a word's stem, in order to indicate grammatical information. In English, an example of an ablaut is the change made to the vowel in the present tense form of the word "drink. ...
