What's the difference between germanic and umlaut?

Germanic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, germanium.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.
  • (n.) Teutonic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (2) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
  • (3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (4) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (5) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (6) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (7) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
  • (8) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
  • (9) We have done well in our last games against them but this German team is much better than the previous sides we have faced.
  • (10) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (11) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
  • (14) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (15) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
  • (16) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
  • (17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
  • (18) The presentation of the phagocytic theory of immunity, proposed by Metchnikoff in 1883, was immediately attacked by German pathologists and microbiologists.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Although my primary degree is from a German university, I did my postgraduate and general practice training in the UK.
  • (20) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.

Umlaut


Definition:

  • (n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is of particular interest this time round because Merkel's junior coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP) have been polling dangerously close to the threshold, as have the anti-Euro newcomers, the Alternative fur (umlaut over u) Deutschland.
  • (2) Löfven [umlaut on o], a former welder with a boxer's nose, faces the difficult challenge of trying to win back Social Democrat voters without looking like what Swedes call a betongsosse, or concrete socialist of the olden days.
  • (3) "The absence of umlaut in the contract which Özil finally signs will decide if Wenger was trolling us or not.
  • (4) Shouldn't there be an umlaut or other diacritic over a vowel?"
  • (5) What we know: Merkel wins, as predicted, everyone else has a rather poor night, umlauts take ages to cut and paste into liveblogs.
  • (6) Is it a hearsay Umlaut in keeping with the day as a whole?
  • (7) One of those against was the former finance minister Peer Steinbruck (umlaut over u).
  • (8) Then surely the Style Guide gurus couldn't object to you using umlauts to your heart's content.
  • (9) There have been times this season when Mourinho seemed to forget who he is, the preposterous Happy Josepersona threatening to consume him, so much so that he wasn't far off waxing lyrical about the virtues of tiki-taka, putting an umlaut in his name and setting up a Twitter account called @JöseTweets, with #teamfollowback in the bio.
  • (10) Therefore examples from parasitology are cited when the ending of species names, the derivatio nominis, the transcription of the German umlaut, the ending of family names as well as collective group names are explained.
  • (11) Updated at 7.38pm BST 7.35pm BST You thought the umlaut, Turkish ö issue divided people "Sporting Kansas CITY," writes James Hupp .
  • (12) Updated at 7.50pm BST 6.32pm BST Eurosceptics euro-phoric Have just got off the phone with Frauke Petry, one of the leaders of the Alternative fur Deutschland (excuse missing umlaut - no time for accents now).
  • (13) "The umlaut is important for pronunciation purposes."
  • (14) He might as well bring a 18 year old French kid named Ozil, without the umlaut of course."