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...

vowels (for example [a], [ɔ], and [ʊ] as [ɛ], [œ], and [ʏ]). (The term Germanic umlaut is also used for the underlying historical sound shift process.) In...

with the study of Germanic languages, as umlaut had occurred prominently in many of their linguistic histories (see Germanic umlaut). While the common...

umlaut triggered by a following high front vowel; in particular: Germanic umlaut, a prominent instance of i-mutation in the history of the Germanic languages...

in Germanic languages were not present in Proto-Germanic but developed later as areal features that spread from language to language: Germanic umlaut only...

eläinkö "animal?" (interrogative) vs. eläinkoe "animal test" (cf. Germanic umlaut). If the character ö is unavailable, o is substituted and context is...

[ɛː]) or Umlaut-A. Referring to the glyph as A-Umlaut is an uncommon practice, and would be ambiguous, as that term also refers to Germanic a-mutation...

a-mutation is something of a misnomer. It has also been called "a-umlaut", "a/o-umlaut", "velar umlaut" and, formerly, "Brechung." (This last was Grimm's term,...

and West Germanic were also encompassed in a larger subgroup called Northwest Germanic. Northwest Germanic: mainly characterized by the i-umlaut, and the...

law Holtzmann's law Sievers' law Verner's law Kluge's law Germanic a-mutation Germanic umlaut (all of the early languages except for Gothic) Great Vowel...

This happened, for example, in all of the West Germanic languages besides Old High German, where umlaut produced stem alternations in Class III weak verbs...

The -j- produced umlaut of the stem vowel in languages other than Gothic. The -j- caused West Germanic gemination in the West Germanic languages in short-stem...

the start of umlaut, another characteristic Germanic feature. Loans into Proto-Germanic from other (known) languages or from Proto-Germanic into other languages...

formally distinct from phenomena like the Germanic umlaut, a form of vowel mutation used in plural forms in Germanic languages. There have been a variety of...

Germanic, including: The lowering of Proto-Germanic ē (/ɛː/, also written ǣ) to ā. The development of umlaut. The rhotacism of /z/ to /r/. The development...

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...

Proto-North Germanic) was an Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto-Germanic in the first...

language. The term "umlaut" is found especially in the Germanic languages (see Germanic umlaut). In some other languages, other terms are used instead...

often involves vowels. Indo-European ablaut (English sing-sang) and Germanic umlaut (goose-geese), mentioned above, are well attested examples. Another...

occurred in most Germanic languages. Like most other Germanic languages, Old English underwent a process known as i-mutation or i-umlaut. This involved...

Proto-Germanic *gebō 'gift' [ˈɣeβɔː] > Northwest Germanic *geƀu, whence North Germanic *gjavu > with u-umlaut *gjǫvu > ON gjǫf, West Germanic *gebu >...

English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely abandoned the use of the subjunctive...

phonology; see Phonological history of Old English § Palatalization and Germanic umlaut § I-mutation in Old English for more information. "Inch" is cognate...

English are generally considered irregularities, surviving results of Germanic umlaut. They include: man → men, woman → women louse → lice, mouse → mice...

Öffa bills ("ö" is a Germanic umlaut that can be transcribed "oe") or job-creation bills were promissory notes created in 1932 by the German government...

with an extra -j-, which causes umlaut in the present where possible. In West Germanic, it also causes the West Germanic gemination. The forms of class...

display a number of innovations shared by all Germanic languages attested later: lack of Germanic umlaut, lack of rhotacism. The language also preserved...

-lier, -liest or -loker, -lokest. A few adjectives also displayed Germanic umlaut in their comparatives and superlatives, such as long, lenger. Other...

clearly from other forms of gradation, which developed later, such as Germanic umlaut (man / men, goose / geese, long / length) or the results of modern...

unrounded vowels. Umlaut is phonemic and in many situations grammatically significant as a side effect of losing the Proto-Germanic morphological suffixes...