Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To undergo a change of vowel.

  2. (transitive)To cause to change a vowel.

Origin

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

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”).

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Forms

ablauts, ablauting, ablauted, ablauted
Base formablaut · to ablaut
3rd person singularablauts
Present participleablauting
Past simpleablauted
Past participleablauted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyablaut
he, she, itablauts

Past simpleLesson

all personsablauted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ablauted
he, she, ithas ablauted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ablaut

Word family

1 related words
Derivedunablauted

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
abjectC2abjureablativeablazeableB1

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