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Meaning of "ablaut" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ABLAUT

German, coined 1819 by Jakob Grimm from ab off + Laut sound.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ABLAUT

ˈæblaʊt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ABLAUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ablaut is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ABLAUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apophony

In linguistics, apophony is the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ABLAUT

ach-laut · bailout · breechclout · clout · flout · glout · ich-laut · lout · pull-out · roll-out · umlaut

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ABLAUT

abl. · ablactation · ablate · ablation · ablatitious · ablatival · ablative · ablative absolute · ablatively · ablator · ablaze · able · able rating · able seaman · able-bodied · able-bodied seaman · able-minded · abled · ablegate · ableism

WORDS THAT END LIKE ABLAUT

aeronaut · Argonaut · astronaut · beaut · comme il faut · cosmonaut · Escaut · faut · Fomalhaut · Hadhramaut · Hadramaut · Hainaut · juggernaut · Kraut · Machaut · oceanaut · sauerkraut · saut · taut · Truffaut

Synonyms and antonyms of ablaut in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ablaut» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ABLAUT

Find out the translation of ablaut to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ablaut from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ablaut» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

ablaut
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

ablaut
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ablaut
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अपश्रुति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ablaut
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

абляут
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

ablaut
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অপশ্রুতি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

ablaut
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ablaut
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Ablaut
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ablaut
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

모음 교체
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ablaut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ablaut
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

உயிர் எழுத்து மாற்றம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Ablaut
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ses değişimi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

apofonia
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

ablaut
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

абляут
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

ablaut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ablaut
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ablaut
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ablaut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avlyd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ablaut

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ABLAUT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of ablaut
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ablaut

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABLAUT»

Discover the use of ablaut in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ablaut and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ablaut and Ambiguity: Phonology of a Morcoccan Arabic Dialect
This volume thoroughly analyzes the phonology of a representative dialect of Moroccan Arabic (MA).
Jeffrey Heath, 1987
2
Ablaut-Relations in the Weak Verb in Gothic, Old High ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Charles Goettsch, 2011
3
A Semasiologic Differentiation in Germanic Secondary Ablaut
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed.
Leonard Bloomfield, 2012
4
On the Formation of English Words by Means of Ablaut; A ...
The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.
Karl Warnke, 2008
5
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
The aim of the volume is to present the state of the art in current work on accent and ablaut in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages.
Gotz Keydana, Paul Widmer, Thomas Olander, 2013
6
Explorations in Integrational Linguistics: Four Essays on ...
I— >I-alternation, a second variety of simple ablaut has to be recognised, which may be referred to as i-monophthongisation. The two subtypes of simple ablaut are in complementary distribution: /-monophthongisation is restricted to e/'-bases;  ...
Robin Sackmann, 2008
7
Indo-European Ax: Axi
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Francis Asbury Wood, 2010
8
Indo-European Accent and Ablaut
The aim of the volume is to present the state of the art in current work on accent and ablaut in Proto-Indo-European and its daughter languages.
Gotz Keydana, Paul Widmer, Thomas Olander, 2013
9
Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, ...
In this chapter I do not attempt a comprehensive summary of the efforts by several recent linguists to account for Arabic ablaut phenomena. Instead, I focus on a few core problems that may be of interest to readers of this volume: the alleged ...
Joseph Shimron, 2003
10
Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected Papers from the 14th ...
The theory of ablaut I propose to start my inquiry into the interplay of ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic in the context of other Ancient Semitic languages by revisiting the theory of ablaut proposed by J. Kuryłowicz (1961, 1973).
Laurel J. Brinton, 2001

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABLAUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ablaut is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Charity Bike Ride for Local Family
"We were told there would be ablaut 60 to 80 bikers come through, we have agreed to do 20 to 30 percent of their meals today to donate it back ... «knopnews2, Feb 15»
2
Why twerking sounds so stupid
... sung that it seems natural for nonsense words or neologisms to follow the same pattern of ablaut (as the Germans called it) or apophony (as ... «Spectator.co.uk, Dec 13»
3
Argle bargle : 5 meanings of word reduplication »
Reduplication can involve copying of whole syllables (mama), rhymes (teeny weeny), or changing vowels within syllables (known as ablaut ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 13»
4
Scripps National Spelling Bee 2013 Results: Winner, Finalists and …
Correctly spells "dehnstufe" (lengthened vowel grade in Indo-European ablaut) #spellingbee. — Vocabulary.com (@VocabularyCom) May 31, ... «Bleacher Report, May 13»
5
Monthly Gleanings: September 2011
3) I don't see why those who allegedly coined skip- should have used a different grade of ablaut attested in the related verb (forgetting for the ... «OUPblog, Sep 11»
6
I'm glad David Cameron's jokes are violent
... a good joke about Twitter, using what philologists call the ablaut form of twit, a word which with a different vowel becomes considerably ruder, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 10»
REFERENCE
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