glottal

From glottis +‎ -al.

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

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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

glottal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the glottis.
2. (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.

• glottic
• glottidean

glottal (plural glottals)

1. (linguistics) A sound made with the glottis

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɔ.tal/

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

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

• supraglottal
• épiglottal

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

Learned borrowing from Latin glottalis.

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

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• Hyphenation: glot‧tal

glottal (strong nominative masculine singular glottaler, not comparable)

1. glottal

   Synonyms: Stimmritzen-, (linguistics also) Kehlkopf-

• Glottal m
• glottalisieren
• Glottalität

• Glottis

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