auslaut

Borrowed from German Auslaut, from aus- (“terminal, out”) + Laut (“sound”).

• enPR: ousʹlout, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊslaʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

auslaut (plural auslauts)

1. (linguistics) The last sound of a word (word-final position) or syllable (syllable-final position).

   Antonym: anlaut

   Coordinate term: coda

   • 1928, J. P. Harrington, Vocabulary of the Kiowa Language:

     Examples also occur of the elision of the second element of the diphthong iH in word auslaut before ’H […]

• anlaut
• inlaut