schwebeablaut

alternative Schwebeablaut

1. Indo European studiesuncountableThe phenomenon or process of metathesis in a Proto-Indo-European root between the vowel and a neighbouring sonorant, which led to both possible full-grades existing, e.g. *grebʰ- and *gerbʰ-.

present singular third person schwebeablauts · participle present schwebeablauting · participle past schwebeablauted · past schwebeablauted · alternative Schwebeablaut

1. Indo European studiesTo undergo the above process.

   But, in any event, Beekes' reconstruction seems less than ideal, given that it effectively relies on a schwebeablauting root[.]

   2013, Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity, →ISBN, page 287

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   The number given with the root tells the number of subgroups where it schwebeablauts, and the number after the subgroup name indicates the amount of roots/words that schwebeablaut in some other subgroup as well […]

   1969, University of California Publications in Linguistics

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of schwebeablaut.