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单词 umlaut
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umlautn.

Brit. /ˈʊmlaʊt/, U.S. /ˈʊmˌlaʊt/
Etymology: German, < um- about + laut sound.
Philology.
a. A change in the sound of a vowel produced by partial assimilation to an adjacent sound (usually that of a vowel or semivowel in the following syllable); = mutation n. 5c.
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modification1845
umlaut1852
mutation1875
metaphony1894
umlauting1938
1844 T. H. Key Alphabet 169 The Influence of Assimilation. [Note] Sometimes called by Germans ‘umlaut’.]
1852 Proc. Philol. Soc. 5 200 The cognate languages clearly exhibit the fact, that the umlaut in these words has been produced by the weak vowel of a lost suffix.
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 130 The Umlaut of the Indo-European languages is a phenomenon of a different order. Here the vowel of the after-member of the word influences that which has gone before.
attributive.1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 131 Nowhere is any structural signification attached now to an Umlaut form, except [etc.].1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) vii. 356 The modern s being imposed upon the old umlaut plural.1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 519/2 In most [German] Midland manuscripts no special signs for the Umlaut vowels are used, except e.
b. The diacritical sign (¨) placed over a vowel to indicate that such a change has taken place.
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prickOE
tittlec1384
acute accent1555
windabout1589
cerilla1591
cedilla1599
acute1609
circumflex1609
grave1609
diaeresis1611
dialysis1665
dot1693
short accent, mark1704
long mark1729
síneadh fada1768
macron1851
macrotone1880
tilde1915
umlaut1938
fada1981
ogonek1981
1938 H. Faulk Common-sense German Course 3 The so-called modified vowels are distinguished by the modification mark or umlaut(¨) on the vowel.
1952 M. Pei Story of Lang. i. ix. 93 English makes use of no subsidiary characters, save for the apostrophe. Many other languages use accent-marks, umlauts, cedillas.
1970 Computers & Humanities 4 340 Umlauts..and upper case letters are coded for proper computer typesetting.

Derivatives

umlaut v. transitive to make such a change.
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society > communication > writing > written character > represent by written character [verb (transitive)] > diacritic > type of diacritic
circumflex1565
acute1609
circumflect1751
dagesh1751
dash1836
umlaut1976
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [verb (transitive)] > umlaut
modify1845
umlaut1976
1976 Language 52 154 Moulton..assumes that all instances of [a] were umlauted simultaneously to [ä].
1983 Word 34 120 The color of prothetic vowels, unless and until umlauted by the next syllable, was that of the laryngeal which was vocalized.
ˈumlauted adj. modified by umlaut; containing a vowel or vowels modified in this way.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > umlaut
modifying1845
umlauted1852
modificatory1861
mutated1875
metaphonical1894
metaphonized1894
metaphonic1922
umlauting1938
1852 Proc. Philol. Soc. 5 200 In particular the umlaut-ed plurals appear not to have yet found a fitting explanation in English grammars.
1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) vii. 356 It should be observed that there is no natural connection between Umlauted forms and Plurality.
ˈumlauting n. and adj.
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circumflexa1577
dashed1859
umlauting1938
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > umlaut
modification1845
umlaut1852
mutation1875
metaphony1894
umlauting1938
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > umlaut
modifying1845
umlauted1852
modificatory1861
mutated1875
metaphonical1894
metaphonized1894
metaphonic1922
umlauting1938
society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of > use of
circumflexion1815
umlauting1938
1938 W. F. Twaddell in Monatschr. f. Deutschen Unterricht XXX. 177 The i, ī, or j which ‘caused’ the umlauting was no longer present in MHG.
1943 E. A. Nida Handbk. Descr. Ling. ii. v. 84 What changes the stems so materially is the umlauting produced by the e vowel of -et.
1977 Language 53 18 As a result of this second rule, back vowels are created on the surface which, unlike all the other back vowels, fail to umlaut in umlauting environments.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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