glottal

English

Etymology

From glottis +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒt.l̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑ.tl̩/, [ˈɡlɑ.ɾl̩]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔt.l̩/, [ˈɡlɔɾ.l̩]
• Rhymes: -ɒtəl
• Hyphenation: glot‧tal

Adjective

glottal (not comparable)

2. Of or relating to the glottis.
4. (phonetics) Articulated with the glottis.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:

     Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.

   • 2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 March 2024:

     Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.

Synonyms

• glottic
• glottidean

Derived terms

• glottal catch
• glottal fry
• glottalic
• glottalise
• glottality
• glottalization
• glottalize
• glottalling
• glottal stop
• glottal-stopped
• infraglottal
• intraglottal
• nonglottal
• periglottal
• pharyngoglottal
• subglottal
• supraglottal
• transglottal

Translations

of or relating to the glottis

• Catalan: glòtic
• Czech: glotální
• Finnish: äänirako-
• French: glottique (fr), glottal (fr)
• German: glottal (de)
• Polish: głośniowy
• Portuguese: glotal
• Scottish Gaelic: glotasach
• Spanish: glótico (es)
• Turkish: gırtlaksal, gırtlaksı (tr)
• Welsh: glotol

articulated with the glottis

• Arabic: حَنْجَرِيّ (ḥanjariyy)
• Finnish: glottaalinen (fi)
• Hebrew: סדקי (sidkí)
• Polish: krtaniowy (pl)
• Tagalog: pigit
• Vietnamese: âm thanh hầu

Noun

glottal (plural glottals)

1. (linguistics) A sound made with the glottis

French

Etymology

Derived from glott(e) (“glottis”) +‎ -al (“-al”, adjectival derivational suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ.tal/

Adjective

glottal (feminine glottale, masculine plural glottaux, feminine plural glottales)

1. (anatomy, relational) glottis; glottal
2. (phonetics) articulated with the glottis, glottal

Related terms

• supraglottal
• épiglottal

Further reading

• “glottal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glottalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔˈtaːl/, [ɡlɔˈtaːl], [ɡlo-]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: glot‧tal

Adjective

glottal (strong nominative masculine singular glottaler, not comparable)

1. glottal

   Synonyms: Stimmritzen-, (linguistics also) Kehlkopf-

Declension

Positive forms of glottal (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist glottal	sie ist glottal	es ist glottal	sie sind glottal
strong declension (without article)	nominative	glottaler	glottale	glottales	glottale
	genitive	glottalen	glottaler	glottalen	glottaler
	dative	glottalem	glottaler	glottalem	glottalen
	accusative	glottalen	glottale	glottales	glottale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der glottale	die glottale	das glottale	die glottalen
	genitive	des glottalen	der glottalen	des glottalen	der glottalen
	dative	dem glottalen	der glottalen	dem glottalen	den glottalen
	accusative	den glottalen	die glottale	das glottale	die glottalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein glottaler	eine glottale	ein glottales	(keine) glottalen
	genitive	eines glottalen	einer glottalen	eines glottalen	(keiner) glottalen
	dative	einem glottalen	einer glottalen	einem glottalen	(keinen) glottalen
	accusative	einen glottalen	eine glottale	ein glottales	(keine) glottalen

Derived terms

• Glottal m
• glottalisieren
• Glottalität

Related terms

• Glottis

Further reading

• “glottal” in Duden online
• “glottal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache