Ablaut

//ˈɑbˌlaʊt//

Synonyms for "ablaut" (8 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (2)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (4)

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7 relation types

More general

4 entries

Synonyms

1 entries

Related terms

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derived

3 entries

has context

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is a

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related to

12 entries

Translations

50 translations across 28 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • ablaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Albanian

1 entries
  • apofoni noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Armenian

1 entries
  • ձայնդարձ noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • абла́ут noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Catalan

1 entries
  • apofonia noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Czech

2 entries
  • kmenostup noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • střída noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Danish

1 entries
  • aflyd noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Dutch

3 entries
  • ablaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • klankwisseling noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • klinkerwisseling noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Faroese

1 entries
  • avljóð noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Finnish

2 entries
  • ablaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • äännevaihtelu noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

French

1 entries
  • apophonie noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Georgian

1 entries
  • აბლაუტი noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

German

1 entries
  • Ablaut (Vokalabstufung f) noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Greek

1 entries
  • μετάπτωση noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • ablaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • apofónia noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • fokváltakozás noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • hangmásulás noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • hljóðskipti noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Irish

2 entries
  • ablabht noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • grádaíocht noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Italian

1 entries
  • apofonia noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Korean

1 entries
  • 모음 전환 noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Latvian

1 entries
  • ablauts noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • abliautas noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Polish

3 entries
  • alternacja noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • apofonia noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • przegłos noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • ablaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • apofonia noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Romanian

2 entries
  • ablaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • apofonie noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Russian

3 entries
  • абла́ут noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • абля́ут noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • апофони́я noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • prijévoj noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • prévoj noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • àblaut noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)
  • а̀блаут noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Spanish

1 entries
  • apofonía noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Swedish

1 entries
  • avljud noun (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses. I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters. It should be delivered from them, who, with their silly Ablauts and ‘tendencies,’ can themselves neither read nor write.

Source: wiktionary

This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.

Source: wiktionary

What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut

Source: wiktionary

It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring

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