umlaut

英 ['ʊmlaʊt] 美['ʊmlaʊt]
  • n. 元音变音
  • vt. 使变为曲音

词态变化


复数: umlauts;

中文词源


umlaut 变音符,元音变换

来自德语umlaut,变音,元音变换,um-, 缩写自ambi-,两边的,周围的,-laut, 声音,词源同listen. 例,an, inch, one, unit.

英文词源


umlaut (n.)
1852, from German umlaut "change of sound," from um "about" (see ambi-) + laut "sound," from Old High German hlut (see listen). Coined 1774 by poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) but first used in its current sense "modification of vowels" 1819 by linguist Jakob Grimm (1785-1863).

双语例句


1. To change ( a vowel ) by umlaut.
变换元音通过元音变化改变 ( 一个元音 )

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2. To write or print ( a vowel ) with an umlaut.
标曲音符号于 ( 元音字母 )

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3. An umlaut is caused in a sound by its assimilation to another sound.
元音变化是由于一个音被另一个音词同化而导致.

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