noun

• Alternation in the vowels of related word forms, especially in Germanic strong verbs (e.g. in sing, sang, sung)

  as modifier ‘an ablaut series’

  More example sentences

  • ‘When ablaut is a regular feature of a language's grammar, it is often called vowel gradation.’
  • ‘It is the relationship between phonemic pitch and the nature of ablaut in standard Lithuanian which makes this clear.’
  • ‘You can't even distinguish between the preterite and participle Germanic ablauts of English.’
  • ‘There are various categories of this: rhyming, exact and ablaut (vowel substitution).’
  • ‘The Proto-Indo-European phonetics was not stable at all: ablauts (vowel interchanges), assimilations, many different consonant processes at the end of the word.’