Germanic a-mutation, a historic sound change in Northwest Germanic languages.
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Ä, known as A with diaeresis or A with umlaut, a letter Ä, ä of Latin-based German, Estonian, Finnish, Slovak, Swedish, Romani and Turkmen alphabets
Originally titled Für Sadie, because Hind was influenced by Beethoven's piece Für Elise, but the umlaut was later dropped to reflect Glasgow dialect, the story tells of Sadie, a housewife in the Parkhead district of Glasgow who rediscovers her childhood love for the piano as a means of escaping her middle-aged misery.
It is commonly thought to be named for the Nobel Laureate, Eduard Buchner (without umlaut), but it is actually named for the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.
Cercignani, Fausto, Early "Umlaut" Phenomena in the Germanic Languages, in «Language», 56/1, 1980, pp.
Grunewald (Grünewald with umlaut is German for Green Woods or Green Forest) is a locality (Ortsteil) within the Berliner borough (Bezirk) of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
The reference is more apparent in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, as Ümlaüt's hair is jet black (rather than blond) just like Abbath.
Icelandic u-umlaut, a similar process affecting only /a/ and operating productively in modern Icelandic
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U-mutation, or u-umlaut, can refer to various processes that occurred in the history of some Germanic languages.