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Umlaut

Pronunciation: /ˈʊmˌlaʊ̯t/

“Umlaut” is a German word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. umlaut
  2. one of the German letters ä, ö, ü (capital letters: Ä, Ö, Ü) and the diphthong äu (capital: Äu) produced by placing the diacritical mark (◌̈) over the vowels a, o, and u
  3. the sounds represented by these letters

Etymology

um- + Laut

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