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nasal

See also: Nasal and n-asal

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.

Pronunciation edit

  • enPR: nā'zəl IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.zəl/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪzəl

Adjective edit

nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)

  1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
    Synonyms: nosely, nosey
    • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 101, number 2, page 98:
      Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
  2. (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
    Hypernyms: sonorant, resonant
    nasal vowel
  3. (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
    nasal utterance
    • 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:
      "Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.
  4. (music) Sharp, penetrating.

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nasal (plural nasals)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
  2. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant.
    Hyponym: velar nasal
  3. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel.
  4. (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
    • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78:
      The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
    • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Books, published 2011, page 463:
      Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
  5. (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone.
  6. (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

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Asturian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/, [naˈsal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

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nasal (epicene, plural nasales)

  1. nasal

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nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasals)

  1. nasal

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).

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nasal (feminine nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)

  1. nasal
  2. (phonetics, phonology) nasal

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Galician edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/ [naˈs̺ɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

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nasal m or f (plural nasais)

  1. nasal

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Etymology edit

From Latin nasalis.

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nasal (strong nominative masculine singular nasaler, not comparable)

  1. nasal

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Positive forms of nasal (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist nasal sie ist nasal es ist nasal sie sind nasal
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative nasaler nasale nasales nasale
genitive nasalen nasaler nasalen nasaler
dative nasalem nasaler nasalem nasalen
accusative nasalen nasale nasales nasale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der nasale die nasale das nasale die nasalen
genitive des nasalen der nasalen des nasalen der nasalen
dative dem nasalen der nasalen dem nasalen den nasalen
accusative den nasalen die nasale das nasale die nasalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein nasaler eine nasale ein nasales (keine) nasalen
genitive eines nasalen einer nasalen eines nasalen (keiner) nasalen
dative einem nasalen einer nasalen einem nasalen (keinen) nasalen
accusative einen nasalen eine nasale ein nasales (keine) nasalen

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Further reading edit

  • “nasal” in Duden online
  • “nasal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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nasal (not comparable)

  1. nasal

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nasal

  1. nasal

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin nāsālis.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

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nasal m or f (plural nasais, not comparable)

  1. nasal

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nasal f (plural nasais)

  1. nasal consonant

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nasal m (plural nasais)

  1. nasal bone

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Late Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/ [naˈsal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: na‧sal

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nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasales)

  1. nasal

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nasal f (plural nasales)

  1. nasal, nasal consonant

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nasal (comparative nasalare, superlative nasalast)

  1. (anatomy) nasal
  2. (phonetics) nasal
  3. nasal (having a nasal tone)
    en nasal röst
    a nasal voice

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Inflection of nasal
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular nasal nasalare nasalast
Neuter singular nasalt nasalare nasalast
Plural nasala nasalare nasalast
Masculine plural3 nasale nasalare nasalast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 nasale nasalare nasalaste
All nasala nasalare nasalaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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nasal c

  1. a nasal (nasal consonant, nasal vowel)

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Declension of nasal 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nasal nasalen nasaler nasalerna
Genitive nasals nasalens nasalers nasalernas

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