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umlaut::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | diacritic, diacritical mark |
Examples of umlaut
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Two interesting examples of umlaut involve vowel distinctions in Germanic verbs.
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When referred to as U-umlaut, it typically represents a close front rounded vowel.
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At some point, he topped his surname with an umlaut and began calling himself Jose.
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A variation of Furtwangler's name without the umlaut is spelled Furtwaengler.
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German orthography is generally consistent in its representation of i-umlaut.
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Instead, i-umlaut of ea and rare eo is spelled e, and i-umlaut of io remains as io.
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In the case of u-umlaut, this entails labialization of unrounded vowels.
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Sometimes, there's a need to distinguish between the umlaut sign and the diaeresis sign.
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This is because all the later dialects have regular umlaut of both long and short vowels.
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- A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
- An umlaut is the orthographical representation of a type of sound shift in spoken language. A very similar diacritical mark (called diaeresis or "trema") is used to signify a linguistic hiatus. ...
- In linguistics, umlaut (from German um- "around"/"the other way" + Laut "sound") is a process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. The term umlaut was originally coined and is principally used in connection with the study of the Germanic languages. ...
- "u00C4" and "u00E4" are both characters that represent either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis.
- N : 1. the change of a vowel that is caused by partial assimilation to a succeeding sound or that occurs as a reflex of the former presence of a succeeding sound which has been lost or altered (as to mark pluralization in goose, geese or mouse, mice). 2. ...
- (1) Jacob Grimm's term for the process of assimilating a vowel to another sound in the following syllable. This process is also called mutation. This process is responsible for many unusual plurals in Germanic languages like English--such as man-men, foot-feet, and so on. ...
- [phonetics,phonology] A significant sound change in the Germanic languages whereby a back vowel was shifted to a front articulation in anticipation of an /i/ or /j/ in the following syllable. ...
- A kind of vowel mutation that consists in the change of a vowel into another influenced by some feature of a vowel in the following syllables. ...
