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uh (US) 1  Expression of confusion or uncertainty. 2  Space filler or pause during conversation.
Germanic umlaut (also i-umlaut or i-mutation) is a type of linguistic umlaut in which a back vowel changes to the associated front vowel (fronting) or a front vowel becomes closer to /i/ (raising) when the following syllable contains /i/ , /iË/ , or /j/ . A similar process resulted in the umlaut of /o/ sometimes appearing as /e/ and sometimes (usually, in fact) as /y/ . 2  In Old English, /o/ generally stems from a-mutation of original /u/ . 3  A-mutation of /u/ was blocked by a following /i/ or /j/ , which later triggered umlaut of the /u/ to /y/ .