Definition of Umlauts. Meaning of Umlauts. Synonyms of Umlauts

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Definition of Umlauts

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

- 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...
- capital umlauts are sometimes printed as digraphs, in other words, ⟨Ae⟩, ⟨Oe⟩, ⟨Ue⟩, instead of ⟨Ä⟩, ⟨Ö⟩, ⟨Ü⟩ (see German alphabet § Umlaut diacritic...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...