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umlaut 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈo͝omˌlout/,
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umlauts, plural;
  1. Modify (a form or a sound) by using an umlaut

Noun
  1. A mark ( ¨ ) used over a vowel, as in German or Hungarian, to indicate a different vowel quality, usually fronting or rounding

  2. (esp. in Germanic languages) The process by which a back vowel becomes front in the context of another front vowel, resulting, e.g., in the differences between modern German Mann and Männer or (after loss of the inflection) English man and men

  1. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
  2. An umlaut is the orthographical representation of a type of sound shift in spoken language. A very similar diacritical mark (called diaeresis or "trema") is used to signify a linguistic hiatus. ...
  3. In linguistics, umlaut (from German um- "around"/"the other way" + Laut "sound") is a process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. The term umlaut was originally coined and is principally used in connection with the study of the Germanic languages. ...
  4. "Ä" and "ä" are both characters which represent either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis.
  5. or mutation is an assimilatory process acting on vowels preceding a vowel or semivowel of a different vowel backness. In the case of i-umlaut and ʀ-umlaut, this entails a fronting of back vowels, with retention of lip rounding. ...
  6. Two horizontal dots over a letter, as in German Köpfe. The umlaut is not distinguished from the diaeresis in the Unicode character encoding. (See diaeresis.)
  7. n : 1. the change of a vowel that is caused by partial assimilation to a succeeding sound or that occurs as a reflex of the former presence of a succeeding sound which has been lost or altered (as to mark pluralization in goose, geese or mouse, mice). 2. ...
  8. (1) Jacob Grimm's term for the process of assimilating a vowel to another sound in the following syllable. This process is also called mutation. This process is responsible for many unusual plurals in Germanic languages like English--such as man-men, foot-feet, and so on. ...
  9. [phonetics,phonology] A significant sound change in the Germanic languages whereby a back vowel was shifted to a front articulation in anticipation of an /i/ or /j/ in the following syllable. ...
  10. A kind of vowel mutation that consists in the change of a vowel into another influenced by some feature of a vowel in the following syllables. ...
  11. (älsö spelled äs umlaut, ümlaut, ümläüt, ör ümläüẗ) rëfërs tö ä söund chängë ïn Germänic länguäges, ïnclüdïng Nörse thät drïvës spëäkërs öf nön-Gërmänïc länguäges cräzy. För ëxämplë, gööse söunds përfëctly fïnë tö ä spëäkër öf Jäpänese ör Spänish, whïlë gëësë drïvës hïm cräzy. ...