单词 | vowel gradation |
释义 | > as lemmasvowel gradation vowel gradation n. = ablaut n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > ablaut ablaut1849 gradation1870 apophony1883 vowel gradation1887 1887 W. W. Skeat Princ. Eng. Etymol. x. 158 To discover the original Teutonic vowel-gradation..we must compare with one another the oldest known forms of the verbs in the various Teutonic languages. 1938 Amer. Speech 13 209 The term ‘vowel-change’ is evidently a new attempt (like ‘vowel gradation’..) to avoid the German word Ablaut. 1973 A. H. Sommerstein Sound Pattern Anc. Greek ii. 70 As is well known, vowel gradation, or ablaut, was an important feature of proto-Indo-European morphology. < as lemmas |
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