auslaut

 [ous-lout]  

aus·laut

   [ous-lout]
noun, plural aus·lau·te  [-lou-tuh] , aus·lauts. Linguistics.
1.
final position in a word, especially as a conditioning environment in sound change.
2.
a sound in this position.
Compare anlaut, inlaut.

Origin:
1880–85; < German, equivalent to aus- out- + Laut sound, as noun derivative of auslauten to end (with a given sound)
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Auslaut is always a great word to know.
So is consonant shift. Does it mean:
characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodentals and uvular fricatives, and most affricates
a set of changes that take place in the articulation of one or more consonant phonemes between an earlier and a later stage of a language
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