Entertainment / Literature / Umlaut: (1) Jacob Grimm's term for the process of assimilating a vowel to another sound in the following syllable. This process is also called mutation. This process is responsible for many unusual plurals in Germanic languages like English--such as man-men, foot-feet, and so on. (2) The diacritical marking also called a dieresis.
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Entertainment / Literature / Dieresis: (also called an umlaut) A diacritic mark (?‚??) to show that vowels represent sounds of different quality--Algeo provides German Br????der (brothers') and Bruder (brother') as an example (316). In E MORE
Entertainment / Literature / I-Mutation: Also called initial mutation, an i-mutation is a change to the initial sound of a word in response to other words appearing in the sentenc. This is a common feature of Celtic languages like Irish and MORE