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Definition of Ablaut
1. Noun. A vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song).
Definition of Ablaut
1. n. The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, got; sing, song; hang, hung.
Definition of Ablaut
1. Noun. (linguistics) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, (term get), (term gat), and (term got); (term sing) and (term song); (term hang) and (term hung), distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ablaut
1. a patterned change in root vowels of verb forms [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ablaut
Literary usage of Ablaut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1885)
"103 Statistical Table 109 Table of the ablaut no THERE is hardly a modern language
which presents so faithful a picture of its former state as the German. ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Optik determined the present view that ablaut is a purely phonetic phenomenon,
and that its variations have been merely utilized by language ; as notably, ..."
3. An Old English Grammar by Eduard Sievers (1903)
"II in participles of the First ablaut-Class are not to be regarded (22, note).
... ablaut Verbs may all be referred to four stems, which are called tense- ..."
4. Old English grammar by Elizabeth Mary Lea Wright, Joseph Wright (1908)
"By ablaut is meant the gradation of vowels both in stem and suffix, ... The vowels
vary within certain series of related vowels, called ablaut-series. ..."
5. Old English grammar by Joseph Wright, Elizabeth Mary Lea Wright (1908)
"Phonology CHAPTER VII ablaut (VOWEL GRADATION) [§324 § 224. By ablaut ...
The vowels vary within certain series of related vowels, called ablaut-series. ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Teutonic Languages: Being at the Same Time a by Jacob Helfenstein (1870)
"REDUPLICATION (ablaut). CLASSIFICATION OF STRONG VERBS. Reduplication was in the
Teutonic, as in the other Amu languages, the most primitive mode of forming ..."
7. The Principles of Sound and Inflexion as Illustrated in the Greek and Latin by John Edward King, Christopher Cookson (1888)
"Where the second ablaut contains a long vowel (as in the root ата), the distinction
between the third and fourth degrees may be preserved. ..."
8. A Grammar of the German Language for High Schools and Colleges: Designed for by H[ermann] C[arl] G[eorge] Brandt (1888)
"ablaut is the gradation of vowels, both in stem and suffix, ... The vowels vary
within • "t »' certain series of related vowels called ablaut-series. ..."
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