umlaut

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʊm.laʊt/|/ˈʌmlaʊt/    美 /ˈʊm.laʊt/|/ˈumlaʊt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
    — In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds.
  2. 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 lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
  3. A vowel so assimilated.
  4. The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
  5. Synonym of diaeresis. informal
    — "Naïve" takes an umlaut because it is pronounced as two syllables.
动词 v.
  1. To place an umlaut over (a vowel). transitive
    — We kept some of the foreign alphabet symbols such as the accented and umlauted vowels and Greek letters and used the rest of the space for more esoteric linguistic symbols such as "barred-l," and "engma."
  2. To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it. transitive
    — an umlauting vowel

词形变化

umlauts plural umlaute plural umlauts present,singular,third-person umlauting participle,present umlauted participle,past umlauted past

词汇关系

近义词
trema vowel mutation
衍生词
heavy metal umlaut metal umlaut
相关词
vowel harmony diaeresis dieresis

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
German um-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós
Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz
Proto-West Germanic *hlūd
Old High German lūt
Middle High German lūt
German Laut
German Umlautbor.
English umlaut
Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19ᵗʰ century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from Old High German hlūt. More at loud.
词源 2
Etymology tree
German um-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós
Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz
Proto-West Germanic *hlūd
Old High German lūt
Middle High German lūt
German Laut
German Umlautbor.
English umlaut
Borrowed from German Umlaut in the 19ᵗʰ century, from um- or um (“around, re-, trans-”) + Laut (“sound”), from Old High German hlūt. More at loud.
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