| 单词 | i-mutated | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasi-mutated  b.   i-mutation,  i-umlaut (also i/j-mutation etc.) Philology, the fronting influence of an *i or *j on the vowel of a preceding syllable in one and the same word; also, the result of this. So  i-mutated,  i-umlauted adjs. ΚΠ 1870    F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. 13 i-umlaut of ô: fôt, fêt(e).  				 1891    A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. 41  				In North. and Mercian oe = e, the i-umlaut of o. 1906    H. C. Wyld Hist. Study Mother Tongue i. 10  				This particular kind of change, known as i-mutation, occurs in hundreds of words in O.E., though, as a rule, the i or j which caused the fronting, disappeared. 1908    J. Wright  & E. M. Wright Old Eng. Gram. iii. 28  				Palatal umlaut, generally called i-umlaut. 1908    J. Wright  & E. M. Wright Old Eng. Gram. iii. 28  				a was the only vowel which underwent i-umlaut in OS. and Old High German. 1927    Englische Studien 10 Nov. 81  				There was, by the side of OE. scēat..an i-mutated variant scīete or scyte with the same sense. 1927    E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 246  				ø2 was the w-mutation of ę or (rarely) a late i-mutation of ǫ. 1945    S. Einarsson Icelandic  i. v. 30  				The I-Shift (..i-umlaut, i-mutation) is so called because it was caused by an i or a j— now often lost—in the ending of a word. 1953    L. F. Brosnahan Some Old Eng. Sound Changes 63  				The phenomenon of i- or j- mutation. < as lemmas  | 
	
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