English-Spanish translations for umlaut

• diéresis
• metafonía
• umlaut

Definition of umlaut

• An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants
• A vowel so assimilated
• To place an umlaut over (a vowel

Examples

• Naïve takes an umlaut as its pronounced as two syllables.
• an umlauting vowel

Related words

• Drumlanrig
• heavy metal umlaut
• closed forumla