Akzentumsprung

English Etymology en de Akzentumsprung, from de 1 Akzent Umsprung accent leap, sudden shift. * ang sċēotan > enm schoten > en shoot (with Akzentumsprung), traditionally formulated as a shift in "accent": ang sċḗotan > ang *sċēótan > enm schoten Compare ang crēopan > enm crepen > en creep Noun - en philology Germanic languages Germanic studies 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. References Lass, R. (1988). The 'Akzentumsprung' of Old English ang eo. On Language: Rhetorica, Phonologica, Syntactica: a Festschrift for Robert P. Stockwell from His Friends and Colleagues, 221. Routledge. Liberman, A. (2011). The origin of the word yeoman. Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, 153-168. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Trask, R. L. (2000). The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics. Psychology Press.