Ablaut

Quick meaning: Ablaut is a noun meaning (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.

Meaning

(intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.
2. (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.

Example Sentences

This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel.

What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut

It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring

This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.

Word Forms

• ablauts
• ablauting
• ablauted

Synonyms for ablaut

Depending on context, synonyms include alternation, gradation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gradation, vocalic, alternation, allophone, allophonics, labdacismus.

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