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vokaalinmukaus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • umlaut noun The pair of dots placed over a vowel, as in German ö or ü, showing that it is pronounced as a front vowel.

Senses

vokaalinmukaus is used for these senses in English:

  • umlaut (linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
  • umlaut (linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
  • umlaut (orthography) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel

umlaut — full definition

  1. noun The pair of dots placed over a vowel, as in German ö or ü, showing that it is pronounced as a front vowel.
  2. noun A change in which a vowel comes to sound more like a vowel in the following syllable.
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