Umlaut
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...in inflection , variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. In this instance it is the end product of the effect of a...replacement of the vowel in the plural. Other examples are mouse, mice; tooth, teeth; to fall, to fell; doom, deem. Umlaut...