Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-4924435-20141231044420/@comment-28303871-20141231224853

The ü diacritic has three different names depending on its function and the language it's being used in. In Germanic languages, it's generally called the umlaut because it denotes where the historical sound change called umlaut occurred, thus resulting in different sounds. In the Romance languages, it's generally called trema or diaraesis. I generally use the term trema as the name for the symbol itself, as (as far as I know) it doesn't denote any sort of origin or function. The term diaraesis refers to a hiatus between vowels, as in "Noël" or "naïve." Anyways, none of them are more correct than the other.