Einlautung
German edit
Etymology edit
From ein (“in”) + Laut (“sound”) + -ung (“-ing”).
Noun edit
Einlautung f (genitive Einlautung, plural Einlautungen)
- (linguistics, dialectology) the process by which a word that was borrowed from one language or dialect into a closely related other language/dialect, is adapted to the phonetic system of the latter based not on similarity of sound, but on typical etymological sound correspondences between both varieties
Usage notes edit
- For example, the standard German word echt (“real, genuine”) was first borrowed into the Ripuarian dialect as ech. Here the loss of -t is not a case of Einlautung because Ripuarian simply does not allow final -t after another obstruent. However, the word was then further adapted by way of Einlautung in the variant ääch, where the lengthening of the vowel follows such pairs as German schlecht, recht vis-à-vis Ripuarian schlääch, rääch, etc.
Declension edit
Declension of Einlautung [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Einlautung | die | Einlautungen |
| genitive | einer | der | Einlautung | der | Einlautungen |
| dative | einer | der | Einlautung | den | Einlautungen |
| accusative | eine | die | Einlautung | die | Einlautungen |