umlaut

pronunciation

How to pronounce umlaut in British English: UK [ˈʊmlaʊt]word uk audio image

How to pronounce umlaut in American English: US [ˈʊmˌlaʊt] word us audio image

  • Noun:
    a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound

Word Origin

umlaut (n.)
1852, from German umlaut "change of sound," from um "about" (see ambi-) + laut "sound," from Old High German hlut (see listen). Coined 1774 by poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) but first used in its current sense "modification of vowels" 1819 by linguist Jakob Grimm (1785-1863).

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