ANLAUT Definition & Meaning

anlaut

[ ahn-lout ]

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noun

Linguistics.

plural anlaute anlauts.

initial position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
a sound in this position.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of anlaut¹

1880–85; < German, equivalent to an- on + Laut sound, as noun derivative of anlauten to begin (with a given sound)

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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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