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German
Etymology
From Stamm + Vokal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃtam.voˌkaːl/
- Hyphenation: Stamm‧vo‧kal
- Rhymes: -aːl
Noun
Stammvokal m (strong, genitive Stammvokals, plural Stammvokale)
(linguistic morphology, Indo-European studies)
- (strictly) thematic vowel, stem vowel (characteristic vowel linking a root with its suffixes)
- Synonym: Themavokal
Der lateinische Infinitiv amare lässt sich in die Wurzel am-, den Stammvokal -a- und die Endung -re zerteilen.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (by reinterpretation) root vowel, the (stressed) vowel of the root ≈ stem itself
- Synonyms: Wurzelvokal, Kennlaut
Die starken Verben im Deutschen bilden das Präteritum durch Abwandlung des Stammvokals.- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
2018, Thomas Klein et. al., Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik, part II: Flexionsmorphologie, De Gruyter, page 796:Bei einer Reihe von starken Verben ist das Präs. ursprünglich mit einem j-haltigen Suffix gebildet. Das j ist historisch geschwunden, hat aber Wirkungen auf den Stammvokal (Wandel germ. *e > *i, im frühen Ahd. Umlaut in e) und teilweise auch auf den auslautenden Konsonanten (Gemination) hinterlassen: got. hafja, ahd. heffu ‚hebe‘ mit Umlaut [...] und Konsonantengemination [...], die mhd. durch Ausgleich beseitigt ist.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
- Sense 2 is unambiguous for languages that have lost thematic vowels, because root and stem thereby become identical. However, such use is also found in reference to languages that retain thematic vowels at least to some degree (like Old High German in the quotation above).
Declension