ö

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ö U+00F6, ö
LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
Composition:o [U+006F] + ◌̈ [U+0308]
← õ
[U+00F5] 		Latin-1 Supplement ÷ →
[U+00F7]

Translingual[edit]

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Symbol[edit]

ö

  1. (NAPA) a front mid rounded vowel (IPA [ø]).

English[edit]

Symbol[edit]

ö

  1. (lexicography) A dictionary transcription for the THOUGHT vowel
    Synonyms: ô, ȯ
  2. (in words like coöperate) – see ◌̈

Azerbaijani[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö lower case (upper case Ö)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Danish[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. (obsolete) A letter of the Danish alphabet

Usage notes[edit]

Merged with ø, thus for example kjöbe (attested at least until ca. 1900) -> købe.

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Dinka[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): /o̤/

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. A letter of the Dinka alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Estonian[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (lower case, upper case Ö)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Estonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See Ö.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈøː/, [ˈø̞ː]
  • Audio(file)

Letter[edit]

ö (lower case, upper case Ö)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called öö and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes[edit]

Should not be replaced by oe in case of technical restrictions (like in e.g. German), as that may change the meaning.

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Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (lower case, upper case Ö)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called ö and written in the Latin script.

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front rounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ö ö-k
accusative ö-t ö-ket
dative ö-nek ö-knek
instrumental ö-vel ö-kkel
causal-final ö-ért ö-kért
translative ö-vé ö-kké
terminative ö-ig ö-kig
essive-formal ö-ként ö-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive ö-ben ö-kben
superessive ö-n ö-kön
adessive ö-nél ö-knél
illative ö-be ö-kbe
sublative ö-re ö-kre
allative ö-höz ö-khöz
elative ö-ből ö-kből
delative ö-ről ö-kről
ablative ö-től ö-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		ö-é ö-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		ö-éi ö-kéi
Possessive forms of ö
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ö-m ö-im
2nd person sing. ö-d ö-id
3rd person sing. ö-je ö-i
1st person plural ö-nk ö-ink
2nd person plural ö-tök ö-itek
3rd person plural ö-jük ö-ik

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • ö in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Kobon[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): /ə/

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. A letter of the Kobon alphabet.

Romani[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (lower case, upper case Ö)

  1. (International Standard) The letter o with the umlaut.

Usage notes[edit]

  • Rarely used in Hungarian loanwords in Romani[1].

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “ö”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 17

Swedish[edit]

FWOTD – 20 September 2020

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter name, noun
Phoneme

Etymology 1[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (lower case, upper case Ö)

  1. The last letter of the Swedish alphabet, pronounced /øː/ when long, /œ/ when short, [œ̞ː] when long and before r, and [œ̞] when short and before r.
    Det är två ön i "Höör".
    There are two ö in "Höör".
Declension[edit]
Declension of ö 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ö öet ön öna
Genitive ös öets öns önas

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Swedish ø, from Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”). Cognate with å (“stream”).

Noun[edit]

ö c

  2. island
    • Herman Melville, Moby Dick eller Den vita valen, tr. by Hugo Hultenberg.
      De innehåller hela arkipelager av romantiska öar liksom de polynesiska farvattnen.
      They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do;
    Gotland är den största ön i Östersjön.
    Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic Sea.
Declension[edit]
Declension of ö 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ö ön öar öarna
Genitive ös öns öars öarnas
Compounds[edit]
See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (lower case, upper case Ö)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ö and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Noun[edit]

ö

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ö.

See also[edit]

Turkmen[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /ø/, /øː/

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called ö and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Veps[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *öö, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *üje.

Noun[edit]

ö

  1. night

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of ö (inflection type 13/ma)
nominative sing. ö
genitive sing. ön
partitive sing. öd
partitive plur. öid
singular plural
nominative ö öd
accusative ön öd
genitive ön öiden
partitive öd öid
essive-instructive ön öin
translative öks öikš
inessive ös öiš
elative öspäi öišpäi
illative öhö öihe
adessive öl öil
ablative ölpäi öilpäi
allative öle öile
abessive öta öita
comitative önke öidenke
prolative ödme öidme
approximative I önno öidenno
approximative II önnoks öidennoks
egressive önnopäi öidennopäi
terminative I öhösai öihesai
terminative II ölesai öilesai
terminative III össai —
additive I öhöpäi öihepäi
additive II ölepäi öilepäi

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “ночь”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Walloon[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. A letter of the Walloon alphabet, written in the Latin script..

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ˈoː/, /ˌɔ/

Letter[edit]

ö (upper case Ö)

  1. The letter O, marked for its syllabic pronunciation distinct from adjacent vowels.

Xavante[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • â (Protestant spelling)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Central Jê *kə (“flowing water”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ö (utterance-medial variant: öi)

  1. water (flowing)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Fernando Orphão de Carvalho, Gean Nunes Damulakis, The Structure of Akroá and Xakriabá and their relation to Xavante and Xerente: A contribution to the historical linguistics of the Jê languages (2015), citing for the older forms Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens (1867; citing Pohl) and Ehrenreich (1895)
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