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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schwebeablaut (“floating ablaut”), from schweben (“float, hover”).
Noun
schwebeablaut (uncountable)
- (Indo-European studies) The phenomenon or process of metathesis in a Proto-Indo-European root between the vowel and a neighbouring sonorant, which led to both possible full grades existing, e.g. *grebʰ- and *gerbʰ-.
Verb
schwebeablaut (third-person singular simple present schwebeablauts, present participle schwebeablauting, simple past and past participle schwebeablauted)
- (Indo-European studies) To undergo the above process.
1969, University of California Publications in Linguistics:The number given with the root tells the number of subgroups where it schwebeablauts, and the number after the subgroup name indicates the amount of roots/words that schwebeablaut in some other subgroup as well […]
2013, Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity, →ISBN, page 287:But, in any event, Beekes' reconstruction seems less than ideal, given that it effectively relies on a schwebeablauting root[.]