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noun. A change in a vowel sound caused by partial assimilation especially to a vowel or semivowel occurring in the following syllable.

noun. A vowel sound changed in this manner.

noun. The diacritic mark (¨) placed over a vowel to indicate an umlaut, especially in German.

transitive verb. To modify by umlaut.

transitive verb. To write or print (a vowel) with an umlaut.

In philology, to form with the umlaut, as a form; also, to affect or modify by umlaut, as a sound.

noun. In philology, the German name, invented by Grimm, for a vowel-change in the Germanic languages, brought about by the influence of a vowel in the succeeding syllable: namely, of the vowel i, modifying the preceding vowel in the direction of e or i, and of the vowel u, modifying the preceding vowel toward a or u.

noun. The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.

noun. An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.

noun. 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).

noun. A vowel so assimilated.

noun. The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel, usually when it indicates such assimilation.

verb. To place an umlaut over a vowel.

noun. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound

"What happens in umlaut is that a back vowel is modified so as to have the form of the corresponding front vowel when there is a front vowel in the following syllable; this typically happens in plural forms of nouns, comparative forms of adjectives, and other words that have suffixes, so Mann (man) becomes Männer (men), lang (long) becomes länger (longer), and Tod (death) becomes tödlich (deathly, lethal)."

diaeresis  dieresis  

heavy metal umlaut  

diacritic  diacritical mark  

trema  vowel harmony