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Umlaut
Umlaut Um"laut, n. [G., from um about + laut sound.] (Philol.)
The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the
influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which
formerly followed.
Note: It is peculiar to the Teutonic languages, and was
common in Anglo-Saxon. In German the umlauted vowels
resulting from a, o, u, followed by old i, are written
["a], ["o], ["u], or ae, oe, ue; as, m["a]nner or
maenner, men, from mann, man. Examples of forms
resulting from umlaut in English are geese pl. of
goose, men pl. of man, etc.
Meaning of Umlaut from wikipedia
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Umlaut or
umlaut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Umlaut may
refer to:
Umlaut (diacritic), a
diacritical mark that
consists of two dots ( ¨ )...
- The
umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/) is the
diacritical mark (◌̈) used to
indicate in
writing (as part of the
letters ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, and ⟨ü⟩) the
result of the historical...
- a
letter from
several extended Latin alphabets, or the
letter A with an
umlaut mark or diaeresis. In the
International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents...
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modified with an
umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a
variant of the
letter O. In many languages, the
letter "ö", or the "o"
modified with an
umlaut, is used to...
- A
metal umlaut (also
known as röck döts[citation needed]) is a
diacritic that is
sometimes used
gratuitously or
decoratively over
letters in the names...
-
transcription delimiters. The
Germanic umlaut (sometimes
called i-
umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of
linguistic umlaut in
which a back
vowel changes to the...
-
umlaut (from
German "sound alternation") is a
sound change in
which a
vowel is
pronounced more like a
following vowel or semivowel. The term
umlaut was...
-
digraph pronounced /øː/). A glyph, U with
umlaut,
appears in the
German alphabet. It
represents the
umlauted form of u,
which results in [yː] when long...
- A-
umlaut may
refer to: Ä, the
letter A with an
umlaut Germanic a-mutation, a
historic sound change in
Northwest Germanic languages Å This disambiguation...
-
referred to by
typographers as hungarumlaut. The
signs formed with a
regular umlaut are
letters in
their own
right in the
Hungarian alphabet—for instance, they...
