The term umlaut was originally coined and is used principally in connection with the study of the Germanic languages.

In Germanic umlaut ( also i-umlaut or i-mutation ), a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel or a front vowel becomes closer to when the following syllable contains,, or.

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( See Germanic umlaut.

Unlike most other Germanic languages, umlaut was only phonemicised for short vowels in all but the easternmost areas ; long vowels and diphthongs are unaffected.

Germanic umlaut, when it occurs with short a, is inconsistent, e. g. or " to have " ().

This happened, for example, in all of the West Germanic languages besides Old High Germanic, where umlaut produced stem alternations in Class III weak verbs, and as a result the class became unproductive and most of its verbs were transferred to other classes.

As shown in the Old English cognates, the-j-produced umlaut of the stem vowel in languages other than Gothic and then disappeared in most verbs in old Germanic languages other than Gothic and Old Saxon.

* the umlaut ( Führer ), altering Germanic vowels

For more information on the process in the Germanic languages, see Germanic umlaut.

* Germanic umlaut

# redirect Germanic umlaut

" Early ' umlaut ' phenomena in the Germanic languages ", Language 56: 1, pp. 126 – 136.

* Germanic umlaut

( On i-mutation in Germanic languages see also Germanic umlaut.

For these, see the articles Germanic umlaut and Germanic weak verb.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

The conception that diseases and death come from invisible shots sent by supernatural beings, or magicians is common in Germanic and Norse mythology.

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of alders.

Both the Latin and the Germanic words derive from the Proto-Indo-European root el -, meaning " red " or " brown ", which is also a root for the English words " elk " and another tree: " elm ", a tree distantly related to the alders.

It is unclear what people Snorri thinks the Vanes are, whether the proto-Slavic Venedi or the east Germanic Vandals, who had been in that region at that time for well over 1000 years.

The High German consonant shift is thought to have originated around the 5th century either in Alemannia or among the Lombards ; before that the dialect spoken by Alemannic tribes was little different from that of other West Germanic peoples.

Syncretism of traditional Germanic animal-style with Christian symbolism is also present in artwork, but Christian symbolism becomes more and more prevalent during the 7th century.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic speech area to the north.

* 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes ( Herulic-Scirian foederati ), is proclaimed rex Italiae (" King of Italy ") by his troops.

The arrangement of crowning a successor as royal prince and military commander is well known among other Germanic tribes, such as the Swedes and Franks, to whom the Anglo-Saxons were closely related.

Alphons is a male given name, originally from a Germanic Adalfuns, composed of the elements adal " noble " and funs " eager, brave, ready ".

Cerdic, who is of both Germanic and British descent and raised as a Roman citizen, served in his army as a young man.

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

The use of the term Ásatrú for Germanic heathenism preceding 19th century revivalist movements is therefore an anachronism.

In Germany, the term Asatru is used in the wider sense of Germanic neopaganism.

In both the Anglosphere and German-speaking Europe, the word Asatru is widely used interchangeably with other terms for Germanic Neopaganism.

Theodism, or Þéodisc Geléafa ( Old English: " tribal belief ") is another form of Germanic neopaganism that developed in the United States contemporaneous with Asatru.

Theodism is focused on the lore, beliefs and social structure-particularly the concept of thew ( Old English þeaw ) or " customary law "-of various specific Germanic tribes.

In the UK, Germanic Neopaganism is more commonly known as Odinism or as Heathenry.

The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.