Schwundstufen.
/ˈʃvʊntˌʃtuːfə/ Philology.
= zero grade n. at zero n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > ablaut > set of > position occupied in > specific
low-grade1895
Schwundstufe1897
nil-grade1922
1897 Jrnl. Germanic Philol. 1 295 ī the ‘schwundstufe’ of ei (o).
1900 H. H. Chadwick in Indogerman. Forsch. 11 153 According to this, -ē- represents an older -ēi-, the regular schwundstufe thereto being shown by -ī- which appears in other..forms.
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 21 181 It is also possible that the base tu̯ῑ- ‘dwindle, waste away’ may be the schwundstufe of tāu-io-.
1933 PMLA 48 1039 Verbs of motion are..likely to have a Schwundstufe present in Germanic.
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