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ablaut

See also: Ablaut

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).[1] Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).

PronunciationEdit

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/, /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/, /ˈæbˌlaʊt/
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  • Rhymes: -aʊt
  • Hyphenation: ab‧lowt

NounEdit

Examples

ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)

  1. (phonology) 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. [Mid 19th century.][2]
    Synonym: alternation
    Hypernyms: gradation, apophony

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TranslationsEdit

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VerbEdit

ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)

  1. (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
    • 1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209:
      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.
    • 1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies, page 241:
      What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut
    • 2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, page 536:
      It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring
    • 2012, Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A Typological Overview, page 219:
      This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel.
  2. (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Morris, William, editor (1969) The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., published 1971, →ISBN, page 3
  2. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ablaut”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch ablaut, borrowed from German Ablaut, from ab- +‎ Laut.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: ab‧laut

NounEdit

ablaut (plural ablaute)

  1. (linguistics) ablaut

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German Ablaut.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑblɑut/, [ˈɑblɑut̪]
  • Rhymes: -ɑblɑut
  • Syllabification(key): ab‧la‧ut

NounEdit

ablaut

  1. (linguistics) ablaut

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of ablaut (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative ablaut ablautit
genitive ablautin ablautien
partitive ablautia ablauteja
illative ablautiin ablauteihin
singular plural
nominative ablaut ablautit
accusative nom. ablaut ablautit
gen. ablautin
genitive ablautin ablautien
partitive ablautia ablauteja
inessive ablautissa ablauteissa
elative ablautista ablauteista
illative ablautiin ablauteihin
adessive ablautilla ablauteilla
ablative ablautilta ablauteilta
allative ablautille ablauteille
essive ablautina ablauteina
translative ablautiksi ablauteiksi
instructive — ablautein
abessive ablautitta ablauteitta
comitative — ablauteineen
Possessive forms of ablaut (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person ablautini ablautimme
2nd person ablautisi ablautinne
3rd person ablautinsa

IndonesianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [aˈblaʊ̯t̚], [aˈblawʊt]
  • Hyphenation: a‧blaut

NounEdit

ablaut (plural ablaut-ablaut, first-person possessive ablautku, second-person possessive ablautmu, third-person possessive ablautnya)

  1. (linguistics) ablaut

Further readingEdit

PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

ablaut m (plural ablauts)

  1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German Ablaut.

NounEdit

ablaut n (plural ablauturi)

  1. ablaut

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ablaut
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) ablaut ablautul (niște) ablauturi ablauturile
genitive/dative (unui) ablaut ablautului (unor) ablauturi ablauturilor
vocative ablautule ablauturilor

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from German Ablaut.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

àblaut m (Cyrillic spelling а̀блаут)

  1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of ablaut
singular plural
nominative àblaut ablauti
genitive ablauta ablauta
dative ablautu ablautima
accusative ablaut ablaute
vocative ablaute ablauti
locative ablautu ablautima
instrumental ablautom ablautima

SynonymsEdit

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