Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

schwebeablaut

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: schwe-be-ablaut
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative letter-case form of schwebeablaut.

Uncountable

noun

The phenomenon or process of metathesis in a Proto-Indo-European root between the vowel and a neighbouring sonorant, which led to both possible full-grades existing, e.g. *grebʰ- and *gerbʰ-.

Uncountable

verb

To undergo the above process.

Example Sentences

"The number given with the root tells the number of subgroups where it schwebeablauts, and the number after the subgroup name indicates the amount of roots/words that schwebeablaut in some other subgroup as well […]"
"But, in any event, Beekes' reconstruction seems less than ideal, given that it effectively relies on a schwebeablauting root[.]"

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schwebeablaut (“floating ablaut”), from schweben (“float, hover”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Schwebeablaut

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

schwebeablauts (present, singular) schwebeablauting (participle, present) schwebeablauted (participle, past) schwebeablauted (past)

Questions

What does schwebeablaut mean?: Alternative letter-case form of schwebeablaut.
Where does schwebeablaut come from?: It is traced to German.

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