NOUN
- a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
How To Use ablaut In A Sentence
- So we have an ablauting -es -os suffix which would betray an unaccented schwa *a. Here's what happened to me
- It is the relationship between phonemic pitch and the nature of ablaut in standard Lithuanian which makes this clear.
- the vocalic ablaut
- Yet, for all the careful reasoning and evidence behind this clever solution, Jasanoff's scheme seems to give us a curious overabundance of durative 'Narten stems' ie. verbs showing *ē/*e ablaut rather than *e/*∅. Where do Narten presents come from?
- It seems we have a "standard" PIE *gʰebʰ-, with the regular e/o-ablaut, and non-ablauting "dialectal" variants *gʰab- and *kap-. PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
- kessar is one of the few clearly ablauting nouns in Hittite. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
- You can't even distinguish between the preterite and participle Germanic ablauts of English.
- kessar is one of the few clearly ablauting nouns in Hittite. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
- If this ablaut preceded Centralization, we would find verb stems alternating between labialized (eg. *kʷ) and non-labialized consonants (eg. *k). Updating my Pre-IE pdf (already!)
- If the voiced variant contains the original ablauting Narten present, then would this mean that *qep- trad. *kap- is not the original root form and merely a dialectal variant of an original form *ɢēb-? PIE *kap- and *ghabh-
