laryngeal

alternative laryngal

1. not comparablerelationalanatomyOf or pertaining to the larynx.

   At sight of it there commenced a series of laryngeal spasms, with clutchings at his throat, far more violent than any I had heretofore seen.

   1871, S. G. Cook, “A Case of Hydrophobia”, in William A. Hammond, editor, The Journal of Psychological Medicine: Diseases of the Nervous System, Medical Jurisprudence and Anthropology, volume 5, page 83

2. not comparablerelationalhuman sciences(of a speech sound) Made by or with constriction of the larynx with only the front part of the vocal cords vibrating, giving a very low frequency and producing what is known as "creaky voice."

plural laryngeals · alternative laryngal

1. anatomyAn anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
2. human sciencesA sound uttered by using the larynx.
3. Indo-European linguisticsIn Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as ⟨h₁⟩, ⟨h₂⟩ and ⟨h₃⟩.

   Finally, it should be noted that laryngeals not adjacent to syllabics were apparently deleted by three different rules.

   2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 15

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   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

   […]it is not only different from Buck's in the linguistics (laryngeals have seen to that); it is very different in scope and aim.

   1995, Andrew L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page viii