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
- : 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
- : 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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