schwebeablaut

See also: Schwebeablaut

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

schwebeablaut (uncountable)

  1. (Indo-European studies) 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-.

Verb

schwebeablaut (third-person singular simple present schwebeablauts, present participle schwebeablauting, simple past and past participle schwebeablauted)

  1. (Indo-European studies) To undergo the above process.
    • 1969, University of California Publications in Linguistics:
      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 []
    • 2013, Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity, →ISBN, page 287:
      But, in any event, Beekes' reconstruction seems less than ideal, given that it effectively relies on a schwebeablauting root[.]
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