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A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound
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diaeresis
Word definitions for diaeresis in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context orthography English) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words (term naïve), (term Noël) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diaeresis \Di*[ae]r"e*sis\, Dieresis \Di*er"e*sis\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Di[ae]reses or Diereses . [L. diaeresis, Gr. ?, fr. ? to divide; dia` through, asunder + ? to take. See Heresy .] (Gram.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound [syn: umlaut , dieresis ] [also: diaerses (pl), diaereses (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Diaeresis (dieresis, diëresis) may refer to: Diaeresis (prosody) , pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong separately, or the division made in a line of poetry when the end of a foot coincides with the end of a word Diaeresis (linguistics) , or hiatus, the ...
Usage examples of diaeresis.
Of course, this is just an orthographic complication that has nothing to do with the structure of the language: In many texts, Tolkien does not use the diaeresis at all.
Besides final ë, we shall use the diaeresis to clarify the pronunciation of the combinations ea, eo and oe (sc.