ABLAUT

ablaut

(noun) a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)

(linguistics) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. [Mid 19^th century.]

Synonyms

• (vowel) gradation, alternation, apophony

Verb

ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)

(intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.

(transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.

Anagrams

• tabula

Source: Wiktionary

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Ab"laut, n. Etym: [Ger., off-sound; ab off + laut sound.] (Philol.)

Definition: 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. Earle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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