ablaut
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/, /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/, /ˈæbˌlaʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) Audio (CA) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊt
- Hyphenation: ab‧lowt
Noun
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ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)
- (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.
- Synonym: alternation
- Hypernyms: gradation, apophony
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
substitution of one root vowel for another
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Verb
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.
- 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.
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ 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-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.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch ablaut, borrowed from German Ablaut, from ab- + Laut.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ab‧laut
Noun
ablaut (plural ablaute)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ablaut
Declension
| 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 | ||
| abessive | ablautitta | ablauteitta | ||
| instructive | — | ablautein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Ablaut (“ablaut”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ablaut (plural ablautok)
- (phonology) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)
- Synonyms: apofónia, tőhangváltás, tőhangváltozás, tőhangzóváltás, tőhangzóváltozás
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | ablaut | ablautok |
| accusative | ablautot | ablautokat |
| dative | ablautnak | ablautoknak |
| instrumental | ablauttal | ablautokkal |
| causal-final | ablautért | ablautokért |
| translative | ablauttá | ablautokká |
| terminative | ablautig | ablautokig |
| essive-formal | ablautként | ablautokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | ablautban | ablautokban |
| superessive | ablauton | ablautokon |
| adessive | ablautnál | ablautoknál |
| illative | ablautba | ablautokba |
| sublative | ablautra | ablautokra |
| allative | ablauthoz | ablautokhoz |
| elative | ablautból | ablautokból |
| delative | ablautról | ablautokról |
| ablative | ablauttól | ablautoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
ablauté | ablautoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
ablautéi | ablautokéi |
| Possessive forms of ablaut | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | ablautom | ablautjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | ablautod | ablautjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | ablautja | ablautjai |
| 1st person plural | ablautunk | ablautjaink |
| 2nd person plural | ablautotok | ablautjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | ablautjuk | ablautjaik |
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
- ^ Laczkó, Krisztina with Attila Mártonfi (2006) Helyesírás [Orthography], Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, →ISBN, page 426
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ablaut (plural ablaut-ablaut, first-person possessive ablautku, second-person possessive ablautmu, third-person possessive ablautnya)
Further reading
- “ablaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Portuguese
Noun
ablaut m (plural ablauts)
- (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
ablaut n (plural ablauturi)
Declension
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-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
àblaut m (Cyrillic spelling а̀блаут)
- (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)