different between ablaut vs vrddhi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?la?t/, /??p?la?t/, /?æb?la?t/

Noun

ablaut (countable and uncountable, plural ablauts)

1. (linguistics) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation; as, get and got; sing and song; hang and hung, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel. [Mid 19^th century.]

Synonyms

• (vowel) gradation, alternation, apophony

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

ablaut (third-person singular simple present ablauts, present participle ablauting, simple past and past participle ablauted)

1. (intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
2. (transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.

See also

• Apophony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Butala, tabula

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ablaut, borrowed from German Ablaut, from ab- +? Laut.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ab?laut

Noun

ablaut (plural ablaute)

1. (linguistics) ablaut

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??bl?ut/, [??bl?ut?]
• Rhymes: -?bl?ut
• Syllabification: ab?la?ut

Noun

ablaut

1. (linguistics) ablaut

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?abla?t??]
• Hyphenation: a?bla?ut

Noun

ablaut (plural ablaut-ablaut, first-person possessive ablautku, second-person possessive ablautmu, third-person possessive ablautnya)

1. (linguistics) ablaut

Further reading

• “ablaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Noun

ablaut m (plural ablauts)

1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Romanian

Etymology

From German Ablaut.

Noun

ablaut n (plural ablauturi)

1. ablaut

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ablaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blaut/

Noun

àblaut m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (linguistics) ablaut (substitution of one root vowel for another)

Declension

Synonyms

• prévoj / prijévoj

English

Noun

vrddhi (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of v?ddhi