Meaning of auslaut | Babel Free

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Synonym of coda (“the optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants”).

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“in auslaut”

at the end of a syllable or word

“By the final consonant (Auslaut) of words, we generally, and unless the contrary be explicitly stated, mean⟳ the last⟳ consonant of roots or primary derivatives, and not that of the termination, which the word may have⟳ assumed in consequence of derivation or of inflection.”

“The Old High German subjunctives like⟳ salbôe, salbôês, salbôêmes, are unorganic, since the ê of salbôês, &c. (which is shortened in the auslaut) is a contraction of ai[…], of which the a must belong⟳ to the class character.”

“[J]ust as in German, we can determine⟳ by the vowel-changes in the stem the vowel of the ending, a circumstance of so much the more importance, as will soon appear⟳, because, even in its oldest form⟳, it is much more weakened in the auslauts than, for instance, the Gothic.”

“In the inlaut before consonants and in the auslaut the long spirant is shortened to h: auh, bauhnenti, bisnuih, ih, queh, gaquihta etc. and in tehmot 17, 16 of Latin origin.”

“As a rule⟳, it is less objectionable to throw⟳ into relief the anlaut than the auslaut of a foot. A break⟳ after the penultimate syllable of the foot has a tendency to render less objectionable a break⟳ after the auslaut.”

“Examples also occur⟳ of the elision of the second element of the diphthong iʜ in word auslaut before ’ʜ; […]”

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