- In linguistics,
apophony (also
known as ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation,
internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...
-
English record /ˈrɛkərd/ (noun) ↔ /rɨˈkɔrd/ "to make a record"
Consonantal apophony, such as the initial-consonant
mutations in
Celtic languages, also exists...
-
languages characteristically make
frequent use of
apophony in the form of ablaut.
Berber apophony has been
historically analyzed as
functioning similarly...
- (/ˈæblaʊt/ AB-lowt, from
German Ablaut pronounced [ˈaplaʊt]) is a
system of
apophony (regular
vowel variations) in the Proto-Indo-European
language (PIE). An...
- "Israeli") has many
borrowed verbs that are more
similar to
other forms of
apophony,
rather than the
Semitic transfixation.: 72 He
argues that
Semitic transfixation...
- The
Northern Bavarian verbs are also
subject to both
vowel change and
apophony. The non-finite
forms have one
three endings: [∅], [n] and [ɐ]. The first...
- a stem
remains unmodified during inflection with few
exceptions due to
apophony (for
example in Polish, miast-o ("city") and w mieść-e ("in the city");...
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Finnish and
Estonian since they
involve consonant gradation but also
vowel apophony.
Inflections in
fusional languages tend to fall in two patterns, based...
-
changing their stem
vowel (e.g.,
binden became bound, a
process called apophony), as in
Modern English. With the
discontinuation of the Late West Saxon...
- feminine) to the
singular form. The
internal plural employs vowel quality or
apophony to
pluralize words,
similar to
English man vs. men and
goose vs. geese...