ALL meanings of umlaut
um·laut
U u - noun umlaut dieresis: diacritical mark 1
- noun umlaut a mark (¨) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic, especially as so used in German. Compare dieresis. 1
- noun umlaut Also called vowel mutation. (in Germanic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel. 1
- verb with object umlaut to modify by umlaut. 1
- verb with object umlaut to write an umlaut over. 1
- countable noun umlaut An umlaut is a symbol that is written over vowels in German and some other languages to indicate the way in which they should be pronounced. For example, the word 'für' has an umlaut over the 'u'. 0
- noun umlaut the mark (¨) placed over a vowel in some languages, such as German, indicating modification in the quality of the vowel 0
- noun umlaut (esp in Germanic languages) the change of a vowel within a word brought about by the assimilating influence of a vowel or semivowel in a preceding or following syllable 0
- noun umlaut a historical change in the sound of a vowel, caused by its assimilation to another vowel or semivowel originally occurring in the next syllable but later sometimes lost; mutation: in English, the differences of vowel in certain singulars and plurals (Ex.: foot—feet, mouse—mice) or in certain causative verbs and the words from which they are derived (Ex.: gold—gild) are due to the effects of umlaut on the second word of each pair 0
- noun umlaut a vowel resulting from such assimilation 0
- noun umlaut the diacritical mark (¨) placed over a vowel, esp. in German, to indicate umlaut 0
- verb transitive umlaut to modify the sound of (a vowel) or write (a vowel) with an umlaut 0