ablaut
Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.
Is ablaut a Scrabble word?
Word Games
- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of ablaut?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (phonology) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.Examples: "I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses. I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters. It should be delivered from them, who, with their silly Ablauts and ‘tendencies,’ can themselves neither read nor write."Synonyms: alternationcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.Examples: "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."; "What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut"; "It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring"intransitive
2. (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary