ablaut

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).^[1] Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑbˌlaʊt/, /ˈɑpˌlaʊt/, /ˈæbˌlaʊt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊt
• Hyphenation: ab‧lowt

ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)

1. (phonology) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. [Mid 19^th century.]^[2]

   Synonym: alternation

   Hypernyms: gradation, apophony

   • 1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading‎^[1]:

     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.

• ablauting

• umlaut

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

1. (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
   • 1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ...‎^[2], page 209:

     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.

   • 1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies‎^[3], page 241:

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

   • 2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing‎^[4], page 536:

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

   • 2012, Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A Typological Overview‎^[5], page 219:

     This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel.

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

• unablauted

• Apophony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Butala, tabula

From Dutch ablaut, borrowed from German Ablaut, from ab- +‎ Laut.

• Hyphenation: ab‧laut

ablaut (plural ablaute)

1. (linguistics) ablaut

From German Ablaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑblɑut/, [ˈɑ̝blɑ̝ut̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑblɑut
• Syllabification^(key): ab‧la‧ut
• Hyphenation^(key): ab‧la‧ut

ablaut

1. (linguistics) ablaut

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“ablaut”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒblɒut]
• Hyphenation: ab‧laut^[2]
• Rhymes: -ut

ablaut (plural ablautok)

1. (phonology) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

   Synonyms: apofónia, tőhangváltás, tőhangváltozás, tőhangzóváltás, tőhangzóváltozás

From English ablaut, from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈblaut/ [aˈbla.ʊt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -aut
• Syllabification: a‧bla‧ut

ablaut

1. ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

• umlaut

• ablaut on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “ablaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

ablaut m (plural ablauts)

1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Borrowed from German Ablaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈab.lawt/

ablaut n (plural ablauturi)

1. ablaut

   Synonym: apofonie

• “ablaut”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Borrowed from German Ablaut.

• IPA^(key): /ǎblaut/

àblaut m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀блаут)

1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

   Synonyms: prévoj, prijévoj

• “ablaut”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025