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Portuguese
trema
Catalan
dièresi
Spanish
dialefa

A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.

trema
1
We get more mail about less and fewer than almost everything except the dieresis.
The new yorker
2
The dieresis is transcribed by a preceding hyphen.
Forty-Six Years in the Army
Portuguese
tremadiérese
Catalan
dièresi
Spanish
dialefa