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Ablauting

//ɑbˌlaʊtˌɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    experiencing an ablaut not-comparable

    "PIE nouns, adjectives, and verbs can be divided into two basic groups based on their inflectional patterns: those that had an ablauting short vowel, e or o (in shorthand -e/o-), directly before the inflectional endings (the case-endings in nouns or adjectives, the personal endings in verbs), and those with no such vowel."

Noun
  1. 1
    the process of vowel turning into its ablaut variant uncountable

    "As an irregular verb, however, its past tense form is characterized by ablauting ('any vowel change that alternates') in which /e/ -> /o/ (/brek/ -> /brok/) and its past participle form is characterized by both ablauting and /(e)n/ addition."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ablaut form-of, gerund, participle, present

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