Definizione monolingua

umlaut

umlaut (third-person singular simple present umlauts, present participle umlauting, simple past and past participle umlauted)

1. To place an umlaut over a vowel.

umlaut (plural umlauts or (rare) ??umlaute)

1. (linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
2. (linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic l?si > Old English l?s(i) > Modern English lice).
3. (linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
4. (orthography) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel to indicate such assimilation.

Definizione dizionario umlaut

umlaut

Altri significati:

(orthography) The diacritical mark ( ? ) placed over a vowel to indicate such assimilation.

diacritical mark

(linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic '''l?si''' > Old English '''l?s(i)''' > Modern English lice).

To place an umlaut over a vowel.

(linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.

partial assimilation of a vowel

(linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.