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umlaut

/oom-lout/US // ˈʊm laʊt //UK // (ˈʊmlaʊt) //

分音符,分音符号,分音符号,分音符符

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mark used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic, especially as so used in German.Compare dieresis.
    • : Also called vowel mutation. assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to modify by umlaut.
    • : to write an umlaut over.

Examples

  • The letter is equivalent to (o umlaut); the correct letterform may have been unavailable to the printer.

  • There is no trace of such vocalic mutation (“umlaut”) in Gothic, our most archaic Germanic language.

  • Meanwhile all consciousness of the merely phonetic nature of “umlaut” vanished centuries ago.

  • “Umlaut” is still a very live symbolic process in German, possibly more alive to-day than in medieval times.

  • The u- -umlaut of a is wanting, except in eawles 126; for heatel 128 heates is read.

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