ablaut
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ablaut
- /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/ US
- /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/ US
- /ˈæbˌlaʊt/ US
Rhymes with -aʊt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
noun ablauts
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The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses. I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters. It should be delivered from them, who, with their silly Ablauts and ‘tendencies,’ can themselves neither read nor write.
Similar: alternation
verb ablauts · ablauting · ablauted
- To undergo a change of vowel. This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.
- To cause to change a vowel.
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noun substitution of one root vowel for another
| Español | apofonía |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 모음 전환 mo'eum jeonhwan |
| Português | ablaut, apofonia |
| Français | apophonie |
| Deutsch | Ablaut (Vokalabstufung f) |
| Italiano | apofonia |
| Ελληνικά | μετάπτωση metáptosi |
| Română | apofonie, ablaut |
| Русский | абла́ут abláut, абля́ут abljáut, апофони́я apofoníja |
| עברית | אַפּוֹפוֹנְיָה apofónya, אַבְּלָאוּט |
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