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Diaeresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, diæresis , diaeresis , or dieresis , is the pronunciation of two adjacent vowels in two separate syllables rather than as a diphthong, and it is also the name of the diacritic ma...
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Historically, the diaeresis mark or trema is far older than the umlaut mark. ... This sign was first used in that language[citation needed] to indicate a phonological diaeresis, that is when two consecutive vowels are pronounced separately as a hiatus, rather than together in a diphthong.
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U with diaeresis (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Although often used interchangeably, the terms umlaut and diaeresis or dieresis refer to two different types of characters that happen to look alike. Learn how to typeset these accent marks. ... The diaeresis is used over the second instance of a pair of vowels in some words.
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The umlaut is a usually-identical diacritic which alters the sound of a single vowel (as in German Schön). Properly speaking, the terms diaeresis and umlaut are not interchangeable, though speakers frequently use the term umlaut to refer to a diaeresis.
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Diaeresis - Definition of Diaeresis at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Diaeresis. Look it up now! ... [Late Latin diaeresis, from Greek diairesis, from diairein, to divide : dia-, apart; see dia- + hairein, to take.]
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Name DIAERESIS ... Old name SPACING DIAERESIS ... Index entries diaeresis, spacing spacing diaeresis; DIAERESIS;
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NON-SPACING DIAERESIS ... greek dialytika dot above, double umlaut double dot above dialytika, greek; COMBINING DIAERESIS derivative, double; DIAERESIS, COMBINING double derivative above, double dot; ... image of Unicode Character 'COMBINING DIAERESIS' (U+0308)
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It may look like a German umlaut, but it's not the same. You may have seen it over the "e" of "noel" and over the "i" of "naive." A dieresis can also be used to show that a vowel is not silent, as in the "e" of "Bronte." The basic character set used in this article ... Cool Word: dieresis / diaeresis The Learning Kingdom...
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Diaeresis is a rhetorical term used in poetry to describe one aspect of the dactyllic hexameter which is contrasted with the caesura. ... Definition:From prosody, the term diaeresis comes up when reading Greek and Latin poetry, including the Greek tragedies, the epics of Homer, and the Aeneid, by Vergil. A diaeresis is a...
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