(anatomy) An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
Used in a Sentence
laryngeals
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for laryngeals.
Editorial note
It would be fun to see a video going into depth about the various speculations on how the laryngeals sounded like.
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(anatomy) An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of laryngeals gathered in one view.
(phonetics) A sound uttered by using the larynx.
(Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as ⟨h₁⟩, ⟨h₂⟩ and ⟨h₃⟩.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for laryngeals.
noun
(anatomy) An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
noun
(phonetics) A sound uttered by using the larynx.
noun
(Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as ⟨h₁⟩, ⟨h₂⟩ and ⟨h₃⟩.
Example sentences
It would be fun to see a video going into depth about the various speculations on how the laryngeals sounded like.
The Danish linguist Möller added the third (h₁) and suggested that they were laryngeals.
Why would an English speaker want to learn symbols for nasals, clicks, ejectives, implosives, laryngeals and tones?
IMO the best guess at this point is that the PIE laryngeals were stable until they disappeared Confirmation in historical linguistics is probabilistic.
Lithuanian has still lost laryngeals, aspirated stops etc.
> can't be related to h2eǵ-, since the laryngeals and plosive phonations are different.
h1eǵhs can't be related to h2eǵ-, since the laryngeals and plosive phonations are different.
Another overlooked point is that it wasn't immediately obvious that the Hittite ḫ was related to Saussure/Möller's laryngeals, because the theory wasn't fully accepted at the time, and not everyone understood it.
In Proto-Indo-European, this leads to the notion that there are several consonants (specifically, laryngeals) which are no longer present in any modern Indo-European language but whose existence in the original is responsible for sometimes shifting vowels that otherwise appear somewhat anomalous in descendant languages.
The plosive phonation distinction isn't as relevant here as the laryngeals - for one thing, the reconstruction h1eǵhs isn't certain, even by the Greek evidence - but the numbered laryngeals were entirely different consonants, which only form a class insofar as they all disappear in non-Anatolian IE.
Radical consonants (which the PIE laryngeals probably were) can be stable under certain conditions and unstable under others - they seem to be less stable in Germanic than in Semitic or Northwest Caucasian, although Germanic /k/ is stable...
The catch is that so-called laryngeals where they reflect in Hittite with Cuniform Characters like Ha and similar only in front of a word and only for two of three or more, meaning there is still no direct evidence of * paXs, or peh2s-, ph2es- depending on voewl length, modulo accentuation.
Quote examples
– Little nitpicks, if you allow: - Saussure reconstructed only two of the three consonants now called “laryngeals” and called them “coefficients sonantiques”.
- In Hittite, not all of the laryngeals are preserved: the Hittite sound transcribed as “ḫ” is certainly not a reflex of h₁, which had no reflexes in Hittite, and it certainly is a reflex of h₂.
Although I used to ignore laryngeals, German dialects know so many different realisations of "ch", that I think I'm good, thank you (ach echt, kiek ma, ick dachte du brochst noch en Beispiel: woher kommt "auf dem Spiel stehen"?
Proper noun examples
Laryngeals replaced by vowel lengthenings, merging of consonsants, vowel shifting based on other sounds, etc.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use laryngeals in a sentence?
It would be fun to see a video going into depth about the various speculations on how the laryngeals sounded like.
What does laryngeals mean?
(anatomy) An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
What part of speech is laryngeals?
laryngeals is commonly used as noun.