laryngeal
Americannoun
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Phonetics. a laryngeal sound.
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Historical Linguistics. one of several hypothetical phonemes assumed to have existed in Proto-Indo-European and to have been lost in most later Indo-European languages after having modified some contiguous consonants and vowels.
adjective
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of or relating to the larynx
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phonetics articulated at the larynx; glottal
Other Word Forms
- laryngeally adverb
- postlaryngal adjective
- postlaryngeal adjective
- sublaryngal adjective
- sublaryngeal adjective
- sublaryngeally adverb
- superlaryngeal adjective
- superlaryngeally adverb
Etymology
Origin of laryngeal
1785–95; < New Latin larynge ( us ) of, pertaining to the larynx ( laryng-, -eous ) + -al 1
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