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Latin characters. In linguistics, the Indo-European
ablaut (/ˈæblaʊt/ AB-lowt, from
German Ablaut pronounced [ˈaplaʊt]) is a
system of
apophony (regular...
- In linguistics,
apophony (also
known as
ablaut, (vowel) gradation, (vowel) mutation, alternation,
internal modification, stem modification, stem alternation...
- as a/aŋ-ablaut, e-
ablaut, and iŋ-
ablaut respectively. Some
words are
ablauted by some and not others, like "gray" hóta or hótA.
Ablaut always depends on...
- (analogous to
English child, child's, children, children's) as well as
ablaut (vowel alterations, as
preserved in
English sing, sang, sung, song) and...
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distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut (i.e.
changing the
vowel of the stem, as in the
pairs speak/spoke and foot/feet)...
- and
exhibited a
complex pattern of
accent shifts and/or
vowel changes (
ablaut)
among the
different cases. Two
declensions ended in a
vowel (*-o/-e) and...
- the
table below.
Ablaut patterns are
groups of
vowels which are swapped, or
ablauted, in the
nucleus of a word.
Strong verbs ablaut the lemma's nucleus...
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descended from the same Proto-Indo-European noun (with
variation in
suffix ablaut) are
Avestan yārǝ "year", Gr**** ὥρα (hṓra) "year, season,
period of time"...
- or the ending.
These words also had no
ablaut variations within their paradigms. (However,
accent and
ablaut were
still ****ociated; for example, thematic...
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ancestral Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language. In PIE,
vowel alternations called ablaut were
frequent and
occurred in many
types of word, not only in verbs. The...
