Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Philol.) Having the umlaut.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of umlaut.

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Examples

  • Later in Act II, Thaïs escapes with similarly umlauted Athanaël following a belly dance sequence that ends in a big wet lesbian kiss.

    The Painted Plywood Desert 2008

  • Later in Act II, Thaïs escapes with similarly umlauted Athanaël following a belly dance sequence that ends in a big wet lesbian kiss.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • (“For the second time in a century Austria had turned on its most famous man,” the embittered, umlauted fashionista says after his Velcro disgrace.)

    Fashionista ‘Brüno’ Has No Clothes 2009

  • Phoenix: "Personally I played with the idea of an 'i-umlaut' where *a would be the default root vocalism and '*ä' as the umlauted form."

    Updating my Pre-IE pdf (already!) 2008

  • Personally I played with the idea of an 'i-umlaut' where *a would be the default root vocalism and '*ä' as the umlauted form.

    Updating my Pre-IE pdf (already!) 2008

  • Here I write umlauted front *ä in early Late IE to distinguish it from instances of plain *a which derived from MIE *a.

    Enticed by a drunken thought 2008

  • A big barrier to language learning is fear of "sounding funny" e.g., the French "r" and umlauted-u sounded lewd to me in HS and hasish -- I've been told -- can reduce that fear greatly.

    languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER. 2004

  • Beaufort is neither Bofort nor Boofort nor Biufort, but Büft, the ü pronounced like the umlauted ü in German.

    Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson

  • Middle High German üe (Modern German ü) did not develop from an “umlauted” prototype of Old High German uo and Anglo-Saxon o, but was based directly on the dialectic uo.

    Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law 1921

  • You add in characters for the funny squiggly/accented/umlauted characters in Spanish, French and German.

    Planet Python 2010

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