laryngealized
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pronounced with or through constriction or other action of the larynx; creaky.
verb
Example Sentences
- "In these words, as in similar forms in related Chadic languages, laryngealized voicing is often audible in the adjacent vowels"
- "It is well known that back vowels such as [ɑ] tend to be more laryngealized than front vowels such as [i] (local phenomenon)."
Etymology
From laryngeal + -ize + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more laryngealized (comparative)
most laryngealized (superlative)