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um⋅laut
[oo
m-lout]
Linguistics–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, esp. as so used in German. Compare dieresis. |
| 2. | Also called vowel mutation. (in Germanic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to modify by umlaut. |
| 4. | to write an umlaut over. |
Origin:
1835–45; < G, equiv. to um- about (i.e., changed) + Laut sound
1835–45; < G, equiv. to um- about (i.e., changed) + Laut sound

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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.
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