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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
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)]
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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.