nasal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
medicine
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
Base: nāsus
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: more nasal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nasal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
pos: adj
tags: relational
examples: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
Neffy uses the same spray device as Narcan, the naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose, according to a spokesperson for its maker, ARS Pharmaceuticals.
gloss: Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
pos: adj
examples: nasal vowel
gloss: Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
pos: adj
examples: nasal utterance
"Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.
gloss: Sharp, penetrating.
pos: adj
Derived words: alinasal
alveolonasal
antronasal
basinasal
binasal
bucconasal
circumnasal
craniofrontonasal
denasal
dorsal nasal artery
dorsonasal
endonasal
epinasal
ethmonasal
extranasal
frontonasal
hypernasal
hyponasal
hyponasality
inferior nasal concha
inferonasal
infranasal
internasal
intranasal
labionasal
lacrimonasal
laryngonasal
linguo-nasal
linguonasal
maxillonasal
mesonasal
muconasal
nasalance
nasal bone
nasal breathing
nasal cannula
nasal capsule
nasal cavity
nasal concha
nasal congestion
nasal consonant
nasal cycle
nasal demon
nasal discharge
nasal douche
nasal fossa
nasal index
nasal-ingressive
nasal irrigation
nasalism
nasality
nasalize
nasalise
nasallang
nasal lavage
nasally
nasal mutation
nasal nerve
nasalness
nasal obstruction
nasal polyp
nasal prongs
nasal septum
nasal spray
nasal tampon
nasal vowel
nasalward
nasalwards
naso-
nonnasal
occipitonasal
oculonasal
orbitonasal
oronasal
oralnasal
orthonasal
palatonasal
palpebronasal
paranasal
perinasal
pharyngonasal
postnasal
post-nasal drip
prenasal
retronasal
rostronasal
salpingonasal
seminasal
septonasal
sinonasal
sinusonasal
subnasal
superior nasal concha
superonasal
supranasal
temporonasal
tracheonasal
transnasal
ventronasal
vomeronasal
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: nasal
lang: Belarusian
word: насавы́
roman: nasavý
lang: Belarusian
word: наза́льны
roman: nazálʹny
lang: Catalan
word: nasal
lang: Czech
word: nosní
lang: Finnish
word: nenä-
lang: Finnish
word: nenän
lang: French
word: nasal
lang: Galician
word: nasal
lang: German
word: nasal
lang: Hungarian
word: orr-
lang: Ido
word: nazala
lang: Irish
word: srónach
lang: Italian
word: nasale
lang: Central Kurdish
word: لووتی
roman: lûtî
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کەپوویی
roman: kepûyî
lang: Mongolian
word: хамрын
roman: xamryn
lang: Norwegian
word: nasal
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: nese-
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: nase-
lang: Occitan
word: nasal
lang: Polish
word: nosowy
lang: Portuguese
word: nasal
lang: Russian
word: носово́й
roman: nosovój
lang: Russian
word: наза́льный
roman: nazálʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: nasal
lang: Swedish
word: nasal
lang: Swedish
word: näs-
lang: Turkish
word: genizsil
lang: Turkish
word: nazal
lang: Ukrainian
word: носови́й
roman: nosovýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: наза́льний
roman: nazálʹnyj
lang: Welsh
word: trwynol