ablaut
See also: Ablaut
Contents
EnglishEdit
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
NounEdit
ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)
- (linguistics) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. [Mid 19th century.][2]
SynonymsEdit
- (vowel) gradation, alternation, apophony
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Related termsEdit
Related terms
TranslationsEdit
substitution of one root vowel for another
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VerbEdit
ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)
- (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.
- (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
- ^ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 5
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NounEdit
ablaut m (plural ablauts)
- (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)