Definition of "laryngeal"

laryngeal

/ləˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.əl/

adjective
not comparable
1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the larynx.
  Quotations
  At sight of it there commenced a series of laryngeal spasms, with clutchings at his throat, far more violent than any I had heretofore seen.
  1871, S. G. Cook, “A Case of Hydrophobia”, in William A. Hammond, editor, The Journal of Psychological Medicine: Diseases of the Nervous System, Medical Jurisprudence and Anthropology‎, volume 5, page 83
2. (phonetics, relational) (of a speech sound) Made by or with constriction of the larynx with only the front part of the vocal cords vibrating, giving a very low frequency and producing what is known as "creaky voice."
noun
plural laryngeals
1. (anatomy) An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
2. (phonetics) A sound uttered by using the larynx.
3. (Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as <h₁>, <h₂> and <h₃>.
  Quotations
  The vowel-coloring effects of the IH laryngeals cannot be considered apart from the vowel-reducing effect of the IH stress accent […]
  1940, J. Alexander Kerns, Benjamin Schwartz, “The Laryngeal Hypothesis and Indo-Hittite, Indo-European Vocalism”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society‎, volume 60, number 2, page 183
  […] it is not only different from Buck's in the linguistics (laryngeals have seen to that); it is very different in scope and aim.
  1995, Andrew L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin‎, New York: Oxford University Press, page viii
  Finally, it should be noted that laryngeals not adjacent to syllabics were apparently deleted by three different rules.
  2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 15

Definition of "laryngeal"

laryngeal

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