Umlaut

Japanese: Umlaut
Umlaut

…But the plural ending /i/ in the final position changed the preceding vowel /oː/ to /eː/, so that in Middle English it became /feːt/, which then changed to [fiːt] in modern English. Such vowel alternations between the singular and plural forms of nouns are called umlauts. This is an example of retrograde assimilation, in which the preceding front vowel /i/ changes the preceding back vowel /o/ to the front vowel e/. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Umlaut" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ところが末位の複数語尾/i/が前の母音/oː/を/eː/に変質させたので,中世英語では/feːt/となり,これが現代では[fiːt]に推移した。こうした名詞の単数形と複数形との間に見られる母音交替を〈ウムラウトUmlaut(母音変異)〉と呼んでいる。これは後の前舌母音/i/が前の後舌母音/o/を前舌母音e/に変えた逆行同化の例である。…

※「Umlaut」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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