Meaning of Laryngeal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
2. A sound uttered by using the larynx.
3. In Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as ⟨h₁⟩, ⟨h₂⟩ and ⟨h₃⟩.

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Examples

“The vowel-coloring effects of the IH laryngeals cannot be considered apart from the vowel-reducing effect of the IH stress accent[…]”

“[…]it is not only different from Buck's in the linguistics (laryngeals have seen to that); it is very different in scope and aim.”

“Finally, it should be noted that laryngeals not adjacent to syllabics were apparently deleted by three different rules.”

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