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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 Umlauts from wikipedia
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capital umlauts are
sometimes printed as digraphs, in
other words, ⟨Ae⟩, ⟨Oe⟩, ⟨Ue⟩,
instead of ⟨Ä⟩, ⟨Ö⟩, ⟨Ü⟩ (see
German alphabet §
Umlaut diacritic...
- eyes. You're
looking at the
umlaut, and it's
looking at you." The
heavy metal band Gwar
parodied the use of
metal umlauts in a
lyric insert included with...
- Look up
Umlaut or
umlaut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Umlaut may
refer to:
Umlaut (diacritic), a
diacritical mark that
consists of two dots ( ¨ )...
- fit an
umlaut into tightly-spaced
lines of text. This may
include umlauts placed vertically or
inside the body of the letter.
Although umlaut was not...
- languages, as
umlaut had
occurred prominently in many of
their linguistic histories (see
Germanic umlaut).
While the
common English plural is
umlauts, the German...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
uppercase letters with
umlauts (nor ß) for
their positions are
taken by the most
frequent French diacritics.
Uppercase umlauts were
dropped because they...
- a
letter from
several extended Latin alphabets, or the
letter A with an
umlaut mark or diaeresis. In the
International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents...
