auslaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ousʹlout
ipa: /ˈaʊslaʊt/
ipa: /ˈaʊsˌlaʊt/
Forms: form: auslauts
form: auslaute
Etymology: PIE word
 *úd
Borrowed from German Auslaut, from aus- (prefix meaning ‘out’) + Laut (“sound”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”)).
The plural form auslaute is borrowed from German Auslaute.
Senses: examples: text: in auslaut
translation: at the end of a syllable or word
english: at the end of a syllable or word
text: 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.
ref: [1830, C. F. Becker [i.e., Karl Ferdinand Becker], “Of Articulate Sounds”, in A Grammar of the German Language, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part I (Etymology); section I (Formation of Words), page 24:
text: 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.
ref: 1845, F[ranz] Bopp, “The Verb”, in [Edward Backhouse] Eastwick, transl., A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Sclavonic Languages. […], part II, London: Madden and Malcolm, […], →OCLC, paragraph 712, page 950:
text: [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.
ref: 1860 January, Hermann Ebel, translated by William K[irby] Sullivan, “Art. III.—Celtic Studies. […] Translated from the German; with an Introduction on the Nature, Formation, and Classification of Stems, with Examples from the Greek, Latin, and Gothic.”, in The Atlantis: Or Register of Literature and Science of the Catholic University of Ireland, volume III, number V, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts; Dublin: John F. Fowler, […], →OCLC, part II (Celtic Studies), section 1 (On Declension in Irish), page 87:
text: 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.
ref: 1890, “Grammatical Treatise”, in George Allison Hench, editor, The Monsee Fragments. […], Strasbourg, France: Karl J. Trübner, →OCLC, page 118:
text: 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.
ref: 1907 March 23, Leon Josiah Richardson, “The Eleven-syllable Alcaic”, in Horace’s Alcaic Strophe (University of California Publications, Classical Philology; volume 1, number 6), Berkeley, Calif.: University Press, →OCLC, paragraph 6, footnote 4, page 179:
text: Examples also occur of the elision of the second element of the diphthong iʜ in word auslaut before ’ʜ; […]
ref: 1928, John P[eabody] Harrington, “Introduction”, in Vocabulary of the Kiowa Language (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; 84), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, § 2 (Vowels and Dipthongs), page 2:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: anlaut
onset
holonyms: rime
syllable
coordinate_terms: inlaut
glosses: Synonym of coda (“the optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants”).
synonyms: word: coda
extra: the optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants
Related terms: ablaut
umlaut