umlaut
See also: Umlaut
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19th century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German hlūt. More at umb, loud.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US) (file)
Noun
umlaut (plural umlauts or umlaute)
- (linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
- (linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
- (linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
- (orthography) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
- (informal, orthography) Synonym of diaeresis
- Naïve takes an umlaut as it's pronounced as two syllables.
Usage notes
- Although this symbol has the same form as the diaeresis/dieresis, it has as a different function and so in standard and technical usage these two terms are not interchangeable. The term for the diacritic mark, as opposed to its function, is trema.
- When spelling a German word out loud, one can say “(vowel) umlaut” or “umlauted (vowel)”. e.g. “a umlaut” or “umlauted a” (ä). (German practice is to say “a Umlaut”, or more commonly to pronounce the letters, so the name of "Ä" is [ɛː], just as "A" is [aː] and "B" is [beː].)
- In alphabetic orders, "ä, ö, ü" are treated as "a, o, u" or "ae, oe, ue" in German (so the word lügen comes directly after or before the word lugen). In other languages, such as Swedish, the umlaut letters may have their own position in the alphabet.
- The usual English plural is umlauts, but the form umlaute (after the German) has seen some use. It is quite rare, however.
Synonyms
- (orthography): trema
- (linguistics): vowel mutation
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
partial assimilation of a vowel
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vowel so assimilated
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diacritical mark
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Verb
umlaut (third-person singular simple present umlauts, present participle umlauting, simple past and past participle umlauted)
- (transitive) To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
- (linguistics, transitive) To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
- an umlauting vowel
See also
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
umlaut
- umlaut (assimilation a->ä, o->ö or u->ü in German and some closely related languages)
Declension
Inflection of umlaut (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | umlaut | umlautit | ||
genitive | umlautin | umlautien | ||
partitive | umlautia | umlauteja | ||
illative | umlautiin | umlauteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | umlaut | umlautit | ||
accusative | nom. | umlaut | umlautit | |
gen. | umlautin | |||
genitive | umlautin | umlautien | ||
partitive | umlautia | umlauteja | ||
inessive | umlautissa | umlauteissa | ||
elative | umlautista | umlauteista | ||
illative | umlautiin | umlauteihin | ||
adessive | umlautilla | umlauteilla | ||
ablative | umlautilta | umlauteilta | ||
allative | umlautille | umlauteille | ||
essive | umlautina | umlauteina | ||
translative | umlautiksi | umlauteiksi | ||
abessive | umlautitta | umlauteitta | ||
instructive | — | umlautein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hypernyms
Anagrams
Manx
Etymology
Noun
umlaut m (genitive singular umlaut, plural umlautyn)
Portuguese
Noun
umlaut m (plural s)
- (linguistics) umlaut (partial assimilation of a vowel in Germanic languages)
- (orthography) umlaut (the diacritical mark ¨ used to indicate such assimilation)
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