ablaut
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German Ablaut (“off-sound”), from ab (“off”), + Laut (“sound”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ablaut (plural ablauts)
- (linguistics) 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. [Mid 19th century.][2]
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
substitution of one root vowel for another
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- Vietnamese: Aplau
Verb[edit]
ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)
- (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
- 1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209:
- This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.
- 1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies, page 241:
- What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut
- 2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, page 536:
- It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring
- 2012, Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A Typological Overview, page 219:
- This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel.
- 1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209:
- (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.
See also[edit]
Apophony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Apophony
References[edit]
- ^ 1971 [1969], Morris, William editor, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., ISBN 0-395-09066-0, page 3:
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 5:
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From German Ablaut.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA: /ǎblaut/
Noun[edit]
àblaut m (Cyrillic spelling а̀блаут)
Declension[edit]
declension of ablaut
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | àblaut | ablauti |
| genitive | ablauta | ablauta |
| dative | ablautu | ablautima |
| accusative | ablaut | ablaute |
| vocative | ablaute | ablauti |
| locative | ablautu | ablautima |
| instrumental | ablautom | ablautima |
