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Latin characters. In linguistics, the Indo-European
ablaut (/ˈæblaʊt/ AB-lowt, from
German Ablaut pronounced [ˈaplaʊt]) is a
system of
apophony (regular...
- In linguistics,
apophony (also
known as
ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation,
internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...
- of
ablauting noun stems, with the
meaning "of,
belonging to,
descended from". To form a vṛddhi-derivative, one
takes the zero-grade of the
ablauting stem...
- had an
ablauting paradigm. That is
quite possible for
Avestan as well, but that
cannot be
certain since the
nominative is not extant. An
ablauting paradigm...
-
alternate in this way, and thus are
often referred to as "non-
ablauting" or "not
ablauting",
sometimes even not
being referred to as
vowels at all. Indo-European...
- (analogous to
English child, child's, children, children's) as well as
ablaut (vowel alterations, as
preserved in
English sing, sang, sung, song) and...
- rules, but are
quite common. Some
roots cannot be
reconstructed with an
ablauting *e, an
example being *bʰuh₂- "to grow, to become". Such
roots can be seen...
-
distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut (i.e.
changing the
vowel of the stem, as in the
pairs speak/spoke and foot/feet)...
- as a/aŋ-ablaut, e-
ablaut, and iŋ-
ablaut respectively. Some
words are
ablauted by some and not others, like "gray" hóta or hótA.
Ablaut always depends on...
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descended from the same Proto-Indo-European noun (with
variation in
suffix ablaut) are
Avestan yārǝ "year", Gr**** ὥρα (hṓra) "year, season,
period of time"...
