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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