anlaut
Americannoun
PLURAL
anlaute, anlauts-
initial position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
-
a sound in this position.
Etymology
Origin of anlaut
1880–85; < German, equivalent to an- on + Laut sound, as noun derivative of anlauten to begin (with a given sound)
Example Sentences
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She was widely connected and would certainly babble in the very city where his bitter rival Professor Anlaut had maintained that Lombard was West Germanic.
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