单词 | ablaut |
释义 | ablaut (once / 1181932 pages) n WORD FAMILY ablaut: ablauts USAGE EXAMPLESAccording to the New English Dictionary, “grub” may be referred to an ablaut variant of the Old Teutonic grab-, to dig, cf. “grave.” Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) By ablaut is meant the gradation of vowels both in stem and suffix, which was chiefly caused by the primitive Indo-Germanic system of accentuation. Wright, Joseph, A Middle High German Primer—Third E...(2010) It should be delivered from them, who, with their silly Ablauts and 'tendencies,' can themselves neither read nor write. Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir, On The Art of Reading(2010) n a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song) Hypo|Hyper gradation, grade a degree of ablaut vowel, vowel sound a speech sound made with the vocal tract open |
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