Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In philology, the initial sound of a word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Phon.) An initial sound, as of a word or syllable.
- noun initially; when initial; -- used of sounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics The first sound of a word (word-initial position) or syllable (syllable-initial position).
Etymologies
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From German Anlaut, from an- ("on, at the beginning") + Laut ("sound").
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