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German
Etymology
um- + Laut
Pronunciation
Noun
Umlaut m (strong, genitive Umlautes or Umlauts, plural Umlaute)
- (linguistics, grammar) umlaut
- 1774, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Die deutsche Gelehrtenrepublik. Ihre Einrichtung. Ihre Geseze. Geschichte des letzten Landtags. Auf Befehl der Aldermänner durch Salogast und Wlemar. Erster Theil., Hamburg, p.229 (also: Die deutsche Gelehrtenrepublik, ihre Einrichtung, ihre Gesetze, Geschichte des letzten Landtags – Auf Befehl der Aldermänner durch Salogast und Wlemar – Vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe, Leipzig, 1817, p.212):
Wem solte es undeutlich seyn, wenn ich zum Exempel sagte: Aus Strom wird Ströme, und sang aus singen, durch den Umlaut?- To whom should it have been incomprehensible, when I said that, for example, through the umlaut "Strom" becomes "Ströme" and "sang" "singen"?
- one of the German letters ä, ö, ü (capital letters: Ä, Ö, Ü) and the diphthong äu (capital: Äu) produced by placing the diacritical mark ( ¨ ) over the vowels a, o, and u
- the sounds represented by these letters
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