umlaut

English - Turkish

Definition of umlaut in English Turkish dictionary: üzeri çift çekitli harf; a veya; bazı kelimelerin kip yapımında görülen ünlü değişikliği; (isim) harfin üzerine koyulan çift nokta; i ünlü harf üzerine konulan çift nokta; bilhassa Almancada üzeri çift noktalı a veya veya harfi veya bunların temsil ettiği ses; üzerine çift nokta koymak (harf); {i} harfin üzerine koyulan çift nokta; bu harflerin üstune konulan çift nokta; kelimenin sesli harfini değiştirmek

English - English

Definition of umlaut in English English dictionary: An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants; The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel to indicate such assimilation; 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 lūsi > Old English līs(i) > Modern English lice); A vowel so assimilated; To place an umlaut over a vowel; a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound; Two horizontal dots over a letter, as in German KÃ¶pfe The umlaut is not distinguished from the diaeresis in the Unicode character encoding (See diaeresis ); {i} diacritical mark (two dots) above a vowel indicating a change in the sound of a vowel, vowel altered in such a way; The assimilation - through fronting, backing, raising, or lowering - of a class of vowels to a set of segments in an immediately neighboring syllable e g , PGmc *fulljan- > OE fyllan 'fill', PGmc *gulda > OE gold, OHG furi > NHG fÃ¼r 'for'; An umlaut is a symbol that is written over vowels in German and some other languages to indicate the way in which they should be pronounced. For example, the word `für' has an umlaut over the `u'. a sign (¨) written over a German vowel to show how it is pronounced (um- + laut ); The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed; A process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a vowel or semivowel in a following syllable; A partial assimilation of a vowel
heavy metal umlaut: An umlaut over a letter in the name of a heavy metal band (as in "Motörhead", "Queensrÿche" and "Mötley Crüe"), added gratuitously for mere stylistic effect
umlauts: plural of , umlaut
umlauts: third-person singular of umlaut