Umlaut

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See also: umlaut and ümlaut

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Etymology

um- +‎ Laut

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊmˌlaʊ̯t/
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Noun

Umlaut m (strong, genitive Umlautes or Umlauts, plural Umlaute)

  1. (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"?
  2. 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
  3. the sounds represented by these letters

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  • English: umlaut

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