laryngeals

Noun

laryngeal (plural laryngeals)

1. An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
2. A sound uttered by using the larynx.
3. (Indo-European linguistics) In Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as ⟨h₁⟩, ⟨h₂⟩ and ⟨h₃⟩.
   • The vowel-coloring effects of the IH laryngeals cannot be considered apart from the vowel-reducing effect of the IH stress accent[…]1940, J. Alexander Kerns, Benjamin Schwartz, “The Laryngeal Hypothesis and Indo-Hittite, Indo-European Vocalism”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 60, number 2, →DOI, page 183

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