nasality

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English nasal

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English nasality

From nasal + -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neɪˈzælɪtiː/

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Noun

nasality (countable and uncountable, plural nasalities)

1. The state or quality of being nasal.

   Synonym: nasalness

   Near-synonym: twang

Derived terms

• denasality
• hypernasality
• hyponasality

Translations

state or quality of being nasal

• Dutch: nasaliteit f
• Finnish: nasaalisuus
• French: nasalité (fr) f
• Galician: nasalidade (gl) f
• German: Nasalität f
• Italian: nasalità f
• Latvian: nazālums m
• Polish: nosowość (pl) f
• Portuguese: nasalidade f
• Russian: носовой хара́ктер зву́ка (nosovoj xarákter zvúka)
• Spanish: nasalidad f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صاغرلق (sağırlık)

See also

• nasalance

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