Auslaut

Quick meaning: Auslaut is a noun meaning (phonology) Synonym of coda (“the optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants”).

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• auslauts
• auslaute

Synonyms for auslaut

Depending on context, synonyms include coda.

Antonyms for auslaut

Common opposites include anlaut, onset.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oxytone, inlaut, outsounding, apocopation, ach-laut, occlusion.

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