Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ablaut
Participle: ablauted
Gerund: ablauting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ablaut |
| you | ablaut |
| he;she;it | ablauts |
| we | ablaut |
| you | ablaut |
| they | ablaut |
Perfect
| I | have ablauted |
| you | have ablauted |
| he;she;it | has ablauted |
| we | have ablauted |
| you | have ablauted |
| they | have ablauted |
Past
| I | ablauted |
| you | ablauted |
| he;she;it | ablauted |
| we | ablauted |
| you | ablauted |
| they | ablauted |
Pluperfect
| I | had ablauted |
| you | had ablauted |
| he;she;it | had ablauted |
| we | had ablauted |
| you | had ablauted |
| they | had ablauted |
Future
| I | will ablaut |
| you | will ablaut |
| he;she;it | will ablaut |
| we | will ablaut |
| you | will ablaut |
| they | will ablaut |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ablauted |
| you | will have ablauted |
| he;she;it | will have ablauted |
| we | will have ablauted |
| you | will have ablauted |
| they | will have ablauted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ablaut |
| you | ablaut |
| he;she;it | ablaut |
| we | ablaut |
| you | ablaut |
| they | ablaut |
Perfect
| I | have ablauted |
| you | have ablauted |
| he;she;it | have ablauted |
| we | have ablauted |
| you | have ablauted |
| they | have ablauted |
Imperfect
| I | ablauted |
| you | ablauted |
| he;she;it | ablauted |
| we | ablauted |
| you | ablauted |
| they | ablauted |
Pluperfect
| I | had ablauted |
| you | had ablauted |
| he;she;it | had ablauted |
| we | had ablauted |
| you | had ablauted |
| they | had ablauted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ablaut |
| you | would ablaut |
| he;she;it | would ablaut |
| we | would ablaut |
| you | would ablaut |
| they | would ablaut |
Perfect
| I | would have ablauted |
| you | would have ablauted |
| he;she;it | would have ablauted |
| we | would have ablauted |
| you | would have ablauted |
| they | would have ablauted |
Imperative
| you | ablaut |
| we | Let's ablaut |
| you | ablaut |
Verbs conjugated like 'ablaut'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ablaut'
ablate,
ablute,
abut,
blast,
blat,
claut,
umlaut,
aband,
abase,
abash,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
3. Proto-Indo-European *-o
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
5. Proto-Germanic *ab
6. Old High German ab
7. Middle High German ab
8. German ab
9. German ab-
10. Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
12. Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós
13. Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz
14. Proto-West Germanic *hlūd
15. Old High German lūt
16. Middle High German lūt
17. German Laut
18. German Ablautbor.
19. English ablaut
20. Borrowed from German Ablaut (“sound gradation”), which is from ab- or ab (“down, off”), + Laut (“sound”). Ab is used here in the sense of “deviating, varying” as in Abgott (“god other than the true God”), Abart (“different sort, variety, anomality”).
Sample Sentences
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This root must once have ablauted, given the associated nominal derivatives prthii- 'broad', prthivl- 'earth'. However, it does not ablaut at all in its verbal forms. [1983, Stephanie W. Jamison, Function and Form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and ..., page 209:]
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What we find is that one cannot predict which members of V a given member of E will cause to ablaut [1985, Michael E. Krauss, Yupik Eskimo prosodic systems: descriptive and comparative studies, page 241:]
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It is these co-opted verbs that tend to ablaut variably in the different Dakotan dialects and that forced morphological restructuring [2006, Felix K. Ameka, Alan Charles Dench, Nicholas Evans, Catching language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, page 536:]
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This allomorph also causes the back vowel to ablaut to a low vowel. [2012, Bernard Comrie, Zarina Estrada Fernández, Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas: A Typological Overview, page 219:]