Etymology

umlauted

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Today it means: Modified by the addition of an umlaut. Full definition →

English umlaut ← German Umlaut ← Middle High German lūt
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The story

  1. Germanum-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱlew-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*ḱlutós
  5. Proto-Germanic*hlūdaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*hlūd
  7. Old High Germanlūt
  8. Middle High Germanlūt
  9. GermanLaut
  10. GermanUmlaut
  11. Englishumlaut
  12. English todayumlauted

From umlaut + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.