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May 27, 2012
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um•laut



Pronunciation: (oom'lout), [key] Ling.

—n.
1. 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, esp. as so used in German. Cf. dieresis.
2. (in Germanic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel; apophony.

—v.t.
1. to modify by umlaut.
2. to write an umlaut over.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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