umlaut

Etymology
From in the 19th century, from  or  +, from. More at,.

Noun

 * 1)  An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
 * 2)  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 lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
 * 3)  A vowel so assimilated.
 * 4)  The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
 * 5)  A.
 * "Naïve" takes an umlaut because it is pronounced as two syllables.

Usage notes

 * Although this symbol has the same form as the diaeresis/dieresis, it has a different function and so in standard and technical usage these two terms are not interchangeable. The term for the diacritic mark, as opposed to its function, is trema.
 * When spelling a German word out loud, one can say “(vowel) umlaut” or “umlauted (vowel)”. e.g. “o umlaut” or “umlauted o” (ö). (German practice is to say “o Umlaut”, or more commonly to pronounce the letters, so the name of "Ö" is [øː], just as "A" is [aː] and "B" is [beː].) In the North of Germany, "ä" and "e" are pronounced identically; therefore, one would tend to say "a Umlaut" to avoid confusion.
 * In alphabetic orders, "ä, ö, ü" are treated as "a, o, u" or "ae, oe, ue" in German (so the word comes directly after or before the word ). In other languages, such as Swedish, the umlaut letters may have their own position in the alphabet.
 * The usual English plural is, but the form (after the German) has seen some use. It is quite rare, however.

Translations

 * Breton: metafoniezh
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 元音變音
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vokaalinmukaus,
 * French:
 * Georgian: უმლაუტი
 * German:
 * Greek: μεταφωνία
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: metafonesi
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: преглас
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: umlaut,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: affeithiad


 * Czech:
 * Estonian: täpitäht
 * German: Halbdoppellaut,, er


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 分音符號,
 * Danish: omlyd
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, surdupunkto
 * Estonian: täpid
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אומלאוט
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: tvídepill
 * Irish: umlabht
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: умлаут
 * Korean: 움라우트
 * Macedonian: преглас
 * Norwegian: omlyd
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: umlaut,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: dve bodky
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: умла́ут
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: didolnod


 * Georgian:
 * Latin:

Verb

 * 1)  To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
 * 2)  To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  (the diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over various vowels: a > ä, o > ö or u > ü in German and some closely related languages)

Etymology
From, from in the 19th century, from  or  +.

Noun

 * 1) umlaut
 * 2)  an assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants
 * 3)  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 lūsiz > Old English lȳs(i) > Modern English lice).
 * 4)  a vowel so assimilated
 * 5)  the diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel

Etymology
From.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   (the partial assimilation of a vowel in Germanic languages)
 * 2)  umlaut (the diacritical mark ¨ used to indicate such assimilation)

Etymology
.