apophonyn.
/əˈpɒfəni/ Philology.
Variation in vowel quality in the formation of grammatically related words, as in English give, gave, German sprechen, sprach. (Also called ablaut and vowel gradation.)
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ablaut1849
gradation1870
apophony1883
vowel gradation1887
1883 I. Sydow German Conversat.-Gram. 253 The Germans call this..Ablaut, that may be rendered by apophony.
1894 V. Henry Short Compar. Gram. Eng. & German 358 Mod. German, though keeping the apophony, obscures it by borrowing the metaphony from the subjunctive.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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