ablaut
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4ADJ.
all
VERB + ABLAUT
cause, tend
PREP.
in
ADV.
variably
Definitions
noun
The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses. I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters. It should be delivered from them, who, with their silly Ablauts and ‘tendencies,’ can themselves neither read nor write.
verb
To undergo a change of vowel.
This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.
What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut
To cause to change a vowel.
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4I declare to you that Literature was not written for schoolmasters, nor for schoolmistresses. I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters. It should be delivered from them, who, with the
WiktionaryThis root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms.
WiktionaryWhat we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut
WiktionaryIt is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring
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