umlaut

Meaning of umlaut

noun
  1. An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
  2. The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
  3. A vowel so assimilated.
  4. The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
  5. Diaeresis
    Naïve takes an umlaut as it's pronounced as two syllables.
verb
  1. To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
  2. To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
    an umlauting vowel

Information about umlaut

Hyphenation of umlaut

um-laut

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • umlaut is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

umlaut synonyms

Meaning dieresis:

dieresis, diaeresis

Anagrams of umlaut

mutual

Words that rhyme with umlaut

ablaut, claut, blahlaut, kellaut, anlaut, imanlaut, inlaut, auslaut

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