| 释义 |
ablaut Philol.|ˈablaʊt|
[mod.G., f. ab off + laut sound.]
Vowel permutation; systematic passage of the root vowel into others in derivation, as in sing, sang, song, sung, apart from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel as in umlaut.
1849E. Thomson Select Monuments p. xxxi, As if it took its meaning from ‘roar’; which in reality is the ablaut-form of ‘rear’. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tong. §124 (1880) But it was in the verbal conjugation that the Ablaut found its peculiar home, and there it took formal and methodical possession. 1886Athenæum 4 Sept. 302/3 The Gothic word differs in ablaut-grade from its Teutonic cognates. 1923J. K. Wallenberg Ayen. of Inwyt 145 Franck, ‘leuk’ derives the Continental forms from a Teut. basis hlū̆- which he considers to stand in ablaut-relation to Du. lauw. 1935Mod. Lang. Notes L. 533 The ablaut-patterns of the strong verbs in the ME dialects of the east and central midlands. 1963in Brown & Foote Early Eng. & Norse Studies 73 On -hœfi and -hæfi as ablaut variations, see A. Noreen. |