auslaut

See also: Auslaut

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Auslaut, from aus- (“terminal, out”) + Laut (“sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ousʹlout, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊslaʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

auslaut (plural auslauts)

1. (linguistics) The last sound of a word (word-final position) or syllable (syllable-final position).

   Antonym: anlaut

   Coordinate term: coda

   • 1890, George Allison Hench, The Monsee Fragments: Newly Collated Text, with Notes and a Grammatical Treatise:

     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.

   • 1928, J. P. Harrington, Vocabulary of the Kiowa Language:

     Examples also occur of the elision of the second element of the diphthong iH in word auslaut before ’H […]

Related terms

• anlaut
• inlaut

Translations

last sound of a word

• Danish: udlyd c, efterlyd c, baglyd c

• German: Auslaut (de) m