Definition of Umlaut. Meaning of Umlaut. Synonyms of Umlaut

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Definition of Umlaut

Umlaut
Umlaut Um"laut, n. [G., from um about + laut sound.] (Philol.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed. Note: It is peculiar to the Teutonic languages, and was common in Anglo-Saxon. In German the umlauted vowels resulting from a, o, u, followed by old i, are written ["a], ["o], ["u], or ae, oe, ue; as, m["a]nner or maenner, men, from mann, man. Examples of forms resulting from umlaut in English are geese pl. of goose, men pl. of man, etc.

Meaning of Umlaut from wikipedia

- Look up Umlaut or umlaut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Umlaut may refer to: Umlaut (diacritic), a diacritical mark that consists of two dots ( ¨ )...
- modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. Ö, or ö, is a variant of the letter O. In many languages, the letter "ö", or the "o" modified with an umlaut, is used to...
- Umlaut (/ˈʊmlaʊt/) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark (◌̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ⟨ä⟩, ⟨ö⟩, and ⟨ü⟩) the result...
- transcription delimiters. The Germanic umlaut (sometimes called i-umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the...
- A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a diacritic that is sometimes used gratuitously or decoratively over letters in the names of mainly hard rock...
- a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents...
- digraph pronounced /øː/). A glyph, U with umlaut, appears in the German alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of u, which results in [yː] when long...
- umlaut (from German "sound alternation") is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. The term umlaut was...
- referred to by typographers as hungarumlaut. The signs formed with a regular umlaut are letters in their own right in the Hungarian alphabet—for instance, they...
- A-umlaut may refer to: Ä, the letter A with an umlaut Germanic a-mutation, a historic sound change in Northwest Germanic languages Å This disambiguation...