Definitions for umlaut

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umlaut um·laut

Spelling: [oo m-lout]

IPA: /ˈʊm laʊt/

Umlaut is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in umlaut (almtuu).

Definitions for umlaut

noun

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, especially as so used in German. Compare dieresis.
2. Also called vowel mutation. (in Germanic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel.

verb (used with object)

1. to modify by umlaut.
2. to write an umlaut over.

Origin of umlaut

1835-45; German, equivalent to um- about (i.e., changed) + Laut sound

Examples for umlaut

I suspect the last is only an umlaut form of a common Shakespearean imprecation.

“umlaut” is still a very live symbolic process in German, possibly more alive to-day than in medieval times.

Wing (n), ahpcha (ch guttural; final a almost as if with umlaut, short and low).

The absence of this umlaut points to Northumbrian or W. Saxon.

That the radical vowel was modified: for y is the umlaut of u; 3.

The umlaut of all these sounds was completed by about the year 1200.

The u- -umlaut of a is wanting, except in eawles 126; for heatel 128 heates is read.

There is no trace of such vocalic mutation (“umlaut”) in Gothic, our most archaic Germanic language.

For consistency with the remaining text, an umlaut was added to 'coperate.'

The spelling of the original is 'Buwelle,' without the umlaut, which others use.