Everything about Diaresis totally explained
In
linguistics,
diaeresis, or
dieresis (US), is the pronunciation of two adjacent
vowels in two separate
syllables rather than as a
diphthong. An example is the first two vowels in
cooperate (also spelled
co-operate, or dated
coöperate). The opposite phenomenon is known as
synaeresis.
Diaeresis, or
tréma from French, is also the name of the diacritic mark (¨ ) which indicates the separation of two vowels, as in
Noël and
naïve. (It looks the same as the
umlaut, which changes the sound of a single vowel, as in German
schön.)
Phonological diaeresis is sometimes indicated with other diacritics, such as the
acute accent in
Spanish and
Portuguese. For example, the Portuguese words
saia [ˈsai̯ɐ] "skirt" and
saía [saˈiɐ] "I used to leave" (
Brazilian pronunciation) differ in that the sequence /ai/ forms a diphthong in the former (synaeresis), but is a hiatus in the latter (diaeresis).
The word
diaeresis comes from
Greek διαίρεσις
diairesis, noun from verb διαιρεῖν
diairein.
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