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Umlaut vs Umlaute - What's the difference?

umlaut | umlaute |

As nouns the difference between umlaut and umlaute

is that umlaut is an assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants while umlaute is plural of lang=en.

As a verb umlaut

is to place an umlaut over (a vowel).

umlaut

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (linguistics) An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
  • (linguistics) The umlaut process (as above) that occurred historically in Germanic languages whereby back vowels became front vowels when followed by syllable containing a front vocoid (e.g. Germanic l?siz'' > Old English ''l?s(i) > Modern English lice).
  • (linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
  • (orthography) The diacritical mark ( ) placed over a vowel, usually when it indicates such assimilation.

    • Usage notes

    * Although this symbol has the same form as the diaeresis/dieresis, it has as a different function and so in standard and technical usage these two terms are not interchangeable. The term for the diacritic mark, as opposed to its function, is trema . * When spelling a German word out loud, one can say “(vowel) umlaut” or “umlauted (vowel)”. e.g. “a umlaut” or “umlauted a” (). (German practice is to say “a Umlaut”, or more commonly to pronounce the letters, so the name of "Ä" is [??], just as "A" is [a?] and "B" is [be?].) * In alphabetic orders, "ä, ö, ü" are treated as "a, o, u" in German (so the word comes directly after the word lugen). In other languages, such as Swedish, the umlaut letters may have their own position in the alphabet. * The usual English plural is umlauts, but the form umlaute (after the German) has seen some use. It is quite rare, however.

    Synonyms

    * (orthography) (l) * (linguistics) (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place an umlaut over (a vowel).
  • (linguistics) To modify (a word) so that an umlaut is required in it.
    • an umlauting vowel

    See also

    * diaeresis, dieresis

    Anagrams

    * ----

    umlaute

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rare, Germanism)
  • * 1874 , English Dialect Society; Publications ; ? 4, 48, or 60; page 13:
    • It is clear that in all these umlaute the new vowel is exactly intermediate between the original vowel of the root and the modifying one of the termination : if the new vowel became identical with its modifier, the result would be not an umlaut but a complete assimilation.
  • * 1900 , Albert S. Gatschet, “Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language”, in American Anthropologist , New Series, v 2, n 3, p 528] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cVMWAAAAMAAJ&q=umlaute&dq=umlaute&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&ei=5NcjSuTCE5KqMrK0sd8P&pgis=1 ? (self-published by the American Anthropological Association):
    • The umlaute , or sounds of periphasis (ä'', ''ö'', ''ü''), exist in the Catawba alphabet, e. g., in ''ómä'', himself; ''túhö'', small; ''dürûbi , iron; but they are not in frequent use.
  • * 1945 , United States Government Printing Office, Style manual: Issued by the public printer under authority of section 51 of an act of Congress approved January 12, 1895 , page 306 (revised edition; self-published)
    • Other than those of umlaute
  • * 1985 , Darío Lucarella (editor), Proceedings of the First European Conference on TEX for Scientific Documentation, 16–17 May 1985, Como, Italy'', pages 61]{1}, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=lang_en&ei=uLsjSv2SAqKuzASC3cyZAg&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&id=2kN8AAAAIAAJ&dq=umlaute&q=%22German+umlaute%22&pgis=1#search_anchor 62]{2}, 64[http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=lang_en&ei=uLsjSv2SAqKuzASC3cyZAg&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&id=2kN8AAAAIAAJ&dq=umlaute&q=%22creation+of+the+umlaute%22&pgis=1#search_anchor {3}] & [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=lang_en&ei=uLsjSv2SAqKuzASC3cyZAg&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&id=2kN8AAAAIAAJ&dq=umlaute&q=%22handling+umlaute%22&pgis=1#search_anchor {4}], [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=lang_en&ei=uLsjSv2SAqKuzASC3cyZAg&num=100&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&id=2kN8AAAAIAAJ&dq=umlaute&q=umlaute+-%22contain+umlaute%22+-%22German+umlaute%22+-%22creation+of+the+umlaute%22+-%22handling+umlaute%22&pgis=1#search_anchor ''&c. (Addison–Wesley Pub. Co.; ISBN 0201133997, 9780201133998):
    • {1} When processing German text with TEX one is faced with the following problem: Many German words contain “umlaute'” (ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü) and/or the sharp S (ß). These letters are normally produced by control sequences (\"a ' ... \"U or \ss).
    {2} A reasonable place for the German umlaute' might be the positions ’32 ' ... ’37 in the Computer Modern text fonts where normally the Scandinavian ligatures are placed.
    {3} The creation of the umlaute as described above is just a few lines of code.
    {4} It should be noticed that the procedure for handling umlaute as described above keeps TEX source files portable to other installations.
    Many computer users are tempted to use built-in umlaut features that come with mircosoft softwares. However, there are still people who do not use microsoft compatible computers (like Apple2) and who are not planning to buy a new computer just to be able to read umlaute'. My suggestion is that ' umlaute be written as "a or ae, "o or oe, "u or ue.