Ablaut

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  • noun. A vowel change, characteristic of Indo-European languages, that accompanies a change in grammatical function; for example, i, a, u in sing, sang, sung.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In philology, a substitution of one vowel for another in the body of the root of a word, accompanying a modification of use or meaning: as, bind, band, bound, bond, German bund; more especially, the change of a vowel to indicate tense-change in strong verbs, instead of the addition of a syllable (-ed), as in weak verbs: as, get, gat, got; sink, sank, sunk.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
    • Word Usage
    "They exhibit perfectly the features of quantitative ablaut, which is the older form."
    Form
    ablauting  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vowel  vowel sound  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    gradation  grade  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    alternation  apophony  gradation  l  prij  
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