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单词 umlaut
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Definition of umlaut in English:

umlaut

noun ˈʊmlaʊtˈʊmˌlaʊt
Linguistics
  • 1A mark (¨) used over a vowel, especially in German, to indicate a different vowel quality.

    (德语中表示不同元音音质)曲音符号(··)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • German umlauts appear to be a problem in some cases.
    • Come on folks, don't you know how to pronounce vowels with umlauts over them?
    • The evidence is that originally the German keyboard produced circumflexes instead of umlauts but it was replaced by an English keyboard.
    • This changed when the reform-minded leader Kemal Mustafa Attaturk, for better or for worse, adopted a Romanization system which heavily uses umlauts to modify various sounds.
    • Furthermore, Hungarian, Turkish and Finnish (which are Ural-Altaic languages like Korean and share phonetic qualities with it) also extensively use umlauts.
    1. 1.1mass noun The process in Germanic languages by which the quality of a vowel was altered in certain phonetic contexts, resulting for example in the differences between modern German Mann and Männer.
      (日耳曼语系)曲音变化
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is important to note that in many OE words containing vowels affected by umlaut, the /i/ or /j/ in the following unstressed syllable has been lost.
      • The mutations of a basic vowel by umlaut are of two kinds in OE.
      • Not all vowel gradations are caused by umlaut.
verbˈʊmlaʊtˈʊmˌlaʊt
[with object]Linguistics
  • Modify (a form or sound) by using an umlaut.

    变(音、形)为曲音

    the colour of prothetic vowels, unless umlauted by the next syllable, was that of the laryngeal which was vocalized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Accented and umlauted vowels, and diacritical marks on consonants must be avoided, because they act as roadblocks and break the speed of a typist.
    • In the choral movement of his ninth symphony, the soprano soloist has to sing her highest note on the umlauted U in flügel, an even more daunting vowel sound than that in ‘who'd.’
    • How can I use umlauted letters in spelling surnames?
    • That's like the umlauted vowel in the first syllable of the German town name Tübingen.
    • There are actually 2 ways to make umlauted vowels.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from German Umlaut, from um 'about' + Laut 'sound'.

Definition of umlaut in US English:

umlaut

nounˈʊmˌlaʊtˈo͝omˌlout
Linguistics
  • 1A mark ( ¨ ) used over a vowel, as in German or Hungarian, to indicate a different vowel quality, usually fronting or rounding.

    (德语中表示不同元音音质)曲音符号(··)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Furthermore, Hungarian, Turkish and Finnish (which are Ural-Altaic languages like Korean and share phonetic qualities with it) also extensively use umlauts.
    • Come on folks, don't you know how to pronounce vowels with umlauts over them?
    • This changed when the reform-minded leader Kemal Mustafa Attaturk, for better or for worse, adopted a Romanization system which heavily uses umlauts to modify various sounds.
    • The evidence is that originally the German keyboard produced circumflexes instead of umlauts but it was replaced by an English keyboard.
    • German umlauts appear to be a problem in some cases.
    1. 1.1 (especially in Germanic languages) the process by which a back vowel becomes front in the context of another front vowel, resulting, e.g., in the differences between modern German Mann and Männer or (after loss of the inflection) English man and men.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is important to note that in many OE words containing vowels affected by umlaut, the /i/ or /j/ in the following unstressed syllable has been lost.
      • The mutations of a basic vowel by umlaut are of two kinds in OE.
      • Not all vowel gradations are caused by umlaut.
verbˈʊmˌlaʊtˈo͝omˌlout
[with object]Linguistics
  • Modify (a form or sound) by using an umlaut.

    变(音、形)为曲音

    the color of prothetic vowels, unless umlauted by the next syllable, was that of the laryngeal which was vocalized
    Example sentencesExamples
    • How can I use umlauted letters in spelling surnames?
    • Accented and umlauted vowels, and diacritical marks on consonants must be avoided, because they act as roadblocks and break the speed of a typist.
    • There are actually 2 ways to make umlauted vowels.
    • That's like the umlauted vowel in the first syllable of the German town name Tübingen.
    • In the choral movement of his ninth symphony, the soprano soloist has to sing her highest note on the umlauted U in flügel, an even more daunting vowel sound than that in ‘who'd.’

Origin

Mid 19th century: from German Umlaut, from um ‘about’ + Laut ‘sound’.

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