English Explanatory Dictionary

Akzentumsprung

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of development of certain diphthongs, especially in Anglo-Frisian, that was traditionally explained as the shifting of prominence from the first component of the diphthong to the second, that is, a change from a falling diphthong to a rising one.

Word forms

Akzentumsprung

Etymology

Borrowed from German Akzentumsprung, from Akzent (“accent”) + Umsprung (“leap, sudden shift”).

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