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  2. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    1.2 Bodily functions and involuntary sounds. 1.3 Cries of distress. ... 8.7 German words. 8.8 Greek words. ... Download as PDF; Printable version;

  3. Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away

  4. Category:Lists of loanwords of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... List of pseudo-German words in English; F.

  5. Final-obstruent devoicing - Wikipedia

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    Final-obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as Catalan, German, Dutch, Quebec French, Breton, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Turkish, and Wolof. In such languages, voiced obstruents in final position (at the end of a word) become voiceless before voiceless consonants and in pausa.

  6. Guttural - Wikipedia

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    Guttural speech sounds are those with a primary place of articulation near the back of the oral cavity, where it is difficult to distinguish a sound's place of articulation and its phonation. In popular usage it is an imprecise term for sounds produced relatively far back in the vocal tract, such as the German ch or the Arabic ayin , but not ...

  7. Category:Profanity by language - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wiktionary; ... German profanity (7 P) P. Polish profanity (6 ...

  8. Umlaut (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, umlaut (from German "sound alternation") is a sound change in which a vowel is pronounced more like a following vowel or semivowel. [1]The term umlaut was originally coined by Jacob Grimm in connection with the study of Germanic languages, as umlaut had occurred prominently in many of their linguistic histories (see Germanic umlaut). [2]

  9. List of pseudo-German words in English - Wikipedia

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    hock (British only) – A German white wine. The word is derived from Hochheim am Main, a town in Germany. nix – nothing; its use as a verb (reject, cancel) [1] is not used in German; synonymous with eighty-six. From the German word 'nichts' (nothing). Mox nix! – From the German phrase, Es macht nichts!