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auslaute

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aus⋅laut

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


Origin:
1880–85; < G, equiv. to aus- out- + Laut sound, as n. deriv. of auslauten to end (with a given sound)
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