ablaut

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).[1] Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/, /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/, /ˈæbˌlaʊt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊt
• Hyphenation: ab‧lowt

ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)

1. (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. [Mid 19^th century.][2]

   Synonym: alternation

   Hypernyms: gradation, apophony

• ablauting

• umlaut

ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)

1. (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
   • 1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209:

     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.

   • 1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies, page 241:

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

   • 2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, page 536:

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

   • 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.

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

• Apophony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Butala, tabula

From Dutch ablaut, borrowed from German Ablaut, from ab- +‎ Laut.

• Hyphenation: ab‧laut

ablaut (plural ablaute)

1. (linguistics) ablaut

From German Ablaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑblɑut/, [ˈɑblɑut̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑblɑut
• Syllabification^(key): ab‧la‧ut

ablaut

1. (linguistics) ablaut

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).

• IPA^(key): [aˈblaʊ̯t̚], [aˈblawʊt]
• Hyphenation: a‧blaut

ablaut (plural ablaut-ablaut, first-person possessive ablautku, second-person possessive ablautmu, third-person possessive ablautnya)

1. (linguistics) ablaut

• “ablaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

ablaut m (plural ablauts)

1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

From German Ablaut.

ablaut n (plural ablauturi)

1. ablaut

Borrowed from German Ablaut.

• IPA^(key): /ǎblaut/

àblaut m (Cyrillic spelling а̀блаут)

1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

• prévoj / prijévoj