◌̈

character

Used to indicate that two identical vowels occur in separate morphemes and are pronounced separately.

“coöperate, noöne, reënter, reëstablish, reöpen”

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Meanings

character
  1. dateddiacriticUsed to indicate that two identical vowels occur in separate morphemes and are pronounced separately.

    coöperate, noöne, reënter, reëstablish, reöpen

  2. diacriticUsed to indicate that the marked vowel is the nucleus of its own syllable.

    aërial, aëroplane, Boötes, Brontë, Chloë, Zoë

    1 more example

    Nor knew by tilëd roofs t’ oppose the sun, / Nor knew device of wood; […] I the first / Join’d unto fitting yokes enslavëd beasts, / Vicarious in the greatest toils, of man; […]

    1833, Æschylus, translated by [Elizabeth Barrett Browning], “Prometheus Bound”, in Prometheus Bound. […] And Miscellaneous Poems, […], London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], →OCLC, page 29
  3. diacriticRetained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately, but also for umlaut in German loan words, and terms derived from given names.

    Führer, Götterdämmerung, Möbius strip, naïve, Noël

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APA

◌̈. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%E2%97%8C%CC%88

MLA

“◌̈.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%E2%97%8C%CC%88. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “◌̈,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%E2%97%8C%CC%88.

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