Examples of using Ablaut in English and their translations into German
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Colloquial
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Official
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Ecclesiastic
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Medicine
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Financial
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Ecclesiastic
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Political
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Computer
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Programming
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Official/political
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Political
Such Ablaut is linked to languages with musical accent, as Latin.
Hirt made foundationalcontributions to the study of Proto-Indo-European language accent and ablaut.
It differs from an ablaut in that the alternation is context-sensitive.
PIE roots as a rule have a single syllabic core, and by ablaut may either be monosyllabic or unsyllabic.
Proto-Indo-European vowel apophony or Ablaut is indeed normal in MIE, but different dialectal Ablauts are corrected when loan-translated.
A feature of Proto-Indo-European morpheme structurewas a system of vowel alternations christened ablaut('alternate sound') by early German scholars and still generally known by that term, except in Romance languages, where the term apophony is preferred.