laryngeal

English

Etymology

From modern Latin laryngeus, from larynx.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ləˈrɪn.dʒi.əl/, /læɹˈɪn.dʒəl/, /ˌlæɹ.ɪnˈdʒiː.əl/
• (US) IPA: /ləˈrɪn.dʒi.əl/, /ˌlæɹ.ɪnˈdʒiː.əl/

Adjective

laryngeal (comparative more laryngeal, superlative most laryngeal)

1. Of or pertaining to a larynx or larynges.

Translations

of or pertaining to larynx

• Finnish: kurkunpään (fi) (genitive of noun)
• French: laryngé, laryngien, laryngique
• German: kehlkopflich
• Greek: λαρυγγικός (el) (laryngikós) 
• Italian: laringico
• Japanese: 喉頭の (koutou no)
• Latin: laryngealis (Vulgar Latin), laryngicus (Classical Latin)

• Polish: krtaniowy (pl)
• Russian: гортанный (ru) (gortánnyj) 
• Serbo-Croatian: lȁringālan (sh), gr̀kljanskī (sh)
• Spanish: laringeo (es)
• Turkish: gırtlakçıl (tr)
• Volapük: larinik (vo)

Noun

laryngeal (plural laryngeals)

1. (phonetics) A laryngeal sound, a sound uttered by using the larynx.
2. (linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as <h₁>, <h₂> and <h₃>.

Usage notes

Wikipedia

The term laryngeal in Indo-European studies is but an anachronistic misnomer, retained only because it has been established as a standard term for those three phonemes. The exact phonetic value of Proto-Indo-European laryngeals is unknown, but it's generally agreed that not all of them were real laryngeals.