German

Noun

Ablaut m ‎(genitive Ablauts or Ablautes, plural Ablaute)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• ablauten

English

Noun

ablaut ‎(plural ablauts)

1. (linguistics) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get, gat, and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. [Mid 19^th century.]^[2]

Synonyms

• (vowel) gradation, alternation, apophony

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

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 ..., 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, 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, 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, page 219:

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

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

See also

• Apophony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

1. ↑ Morris, William, editor (1969) The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., ISBN 0-395-09066-0, published 1971, page 3
2. ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 5

Portuguese

Noun

ablaut m (plural ablauts)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Ablaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎblaut/

Noun

àblaut m ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀блаут)

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

Declension

Synonyms

• prévoj / prijévoj