Word.ws English Dictionary

monolaryngealism

monolaryngealism noun: a school of thought that argues that that the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European is sufficient with only one laryngeal consonant.

Noun

monolaryngealism

  1. (Indo-European linguistics) A school of thought that argues that that the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European is sufficient with only one laryngeal consonant.

Origin of monolaryngealism

From mono- + laryngeal + -ism.

Questions about monolaryngealism

What does monolaryngealism mean?
Monolaryngealism means a school of thought that argues that that the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European is sufficient with only one laryngeal consonant.
What part of speech is monolaryngealism?
Monolaryngealism is a noun.

Words near monolaryngealism in the dictionary

  1. monokinied
  2. monokinis
  3. monolabeled
  4. monolactyl
  5. monolamellar
  6. monolaryngealism
  7. monolater
  8. monolateral
  9. monolaterally
  10. monolaters
  11. monolatries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monolaryngealism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “monolaryngealism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/monolaryngealism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.