• 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...
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    Ï, lowercase ï, is a symbol used in various languages written with the Latin alphabet; it can be read as the letter I with diaeresis, I-umlaut or I-trema...
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  • Look up Umlaut or umlaut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Umlaut may refer to: Umlaut (diacritic), a diacritical mark that consists of two dots ( ¨ )...
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    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...
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  • of an I-umlaut, but the original vowel in sonur was u changed to o by the A-umlaut.) ú, jú and jó ⇒ ý au ⇒ ey The above effects of the I-umlaut are most...
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  • (sometimes back umlaut, guttural umlaut, u-umlaut, or velar umlaut) is a change that took place in late prehistoric Old English and caused short e, i and sometimes...
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    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...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. I-mutation (also known as umlaut, front mutation, i-umlaut, i/j-mutation or i/j-umlaut) is a type of sound change in which...
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  • 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...
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    Ä (redirect from A umlaut)
    a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter A with an umlaut mark or diaeresis. In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents...
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    Ö (redirect from O-umlaut)
    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...
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    Ü (redirect from U-umlaut)
    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...
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    Old Norse (section Umlaut)
    formed via ʀ-umlaut from /u/, /uː/, /a/, /aː/, and /au/. Some /y/, /yː/, /ø/, /øː/, and all /ɔ/, /ɔː/ were obtained by u-umlaut from /i/, //, /e/, /eː/...
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  • caused by i-umlaut of long and short ea, eo, io did not appear in Anglian. Instead, i-umlaut of ea and rare eo is spelled e, and i-umlaut of io remains...
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    The vowels /i/ and /ai/ rounded to /y/ and /ey/, respectively, only before /w/. Short /a/ become /ø/ by a combination of i-umlaut and w-umlaut. A process...
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  • constructions characteristic of the Germanic daughter languages such as the umlaut. Among living languages, Old English morphology most closely resembles that...
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  • well as length. Later í, ó, ú were marked as well. In the 18th century, before Hungarian orthography became fixed, u and o with umlaut + acute (ǘ, ö́) were...
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  • by a mix of inflection and two nonconcatenative morphological processes: umlaut, a backness-based alteration to the root vowel; and ablaut, a replacement...
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  • The most familiar to English-language speakers are the diaeresis and the umlaut, though there are numerous others. For example, in Albanian, ë represents...
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  • "Ha(þu)þ[e]was ann k(u)sjam log(u)ns", interpreting it as "[property] of Haþuþewaz. I bestow upon the choosers of the swords". Old Dutch is the language ancestral...
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    Ossetic has Digoron erä, irä, Iron ir, with Dig. iriston, Iron iryston (the i-umlaut modifying the vowel a-, but leaving the -r- untouched), [and] the ancestral...
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    alphabet: German uses letter-diacritic combinations (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature (ẞ/ß (called eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)), but...
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  • the mid front rounded vowel /ø(ː)/, spelled ⟨œ⟩, which had emerged from i-umlaut of /o(ː)/. In West Saxon and Kentish, it had already merged with /e(ː)/...
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    Part Thomas Edison. Bär McKinnon performs around Melbourne with his band Umläut and contributes to a remote supergroup formed in 2020 by the name of High...
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    contain the characteristic change /u/ > // (English), /uː/ > /yː/ (German), /oː/ > /øː/ (ON and Danish) due to i-umlaut; the Gothic form shows no such change...
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  • the past with *-ī-. In German, these forms have been reduced to a schwa, spelled -e. The past tense, however, often displays i-umlaut. In Old Norse, both...
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    *dōmijaną). The umlauts are divided into three categories: a-umlaut, i-umlaut and u-umlaut; the last was still productive in Old Norse. The first, however...
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  • The ʾimāla is of the i-umlaut type. Distinctive pronouns are 2sg.f. suffix -ke. The a-Type perfects take the form ḍarōb and the i-type lbēs. The suffix...
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  • Palatalization postdated fronting, and predated monophthongization and i-umlaut. Between vowels, h generally disappears (sian from *sehwaną), as in Old...
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    geba, OE giefe (unstressed a > e) vs. Gothic gibōs. The development of i-umlaut. The rhotacism of /z/ to /r/, with presumably a rhotic fricative of some...
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