-ö-

From the old practice, which comes from French, of using the diaeresis accent to communicate vowel hiatus, i.e. to clarify that a vowel is to be spoken separately rather than joined with or influenced by the sounds before it; for example, Chloë is to be read as CLOH-EY, not CLEE (i.e. an oe as in Oedipus); and the ae in aëroport is not spoken as that in archaeology.

-ö-

1. (very rare, sometimes archaic or nonstandard) Alternative spelling of -o-; used to clarify that the O sound should be pronounced distinctly and not as an OO sound.

• IPA^(key): [ø]

-ö-

1. A suffix-initial vowel (or linking vowel) inserted interconsonantally between the word stem and the suffix, to ease pronunciation, without contributing to the meaning.

   ‎kör (“circle”) + ‎-ö- + -k → ‎körök (“circles”)

   ‎öröm (“joy”) + ‎-ö- + -d → ‎örömöd (“your joy”)