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Definition of Nasals
1. nasal [n] - See also: nasal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nasals
Literary usage of Nasals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"The question, which affects nasals as well ae liquids, ... The Indo - Germanic
sonant nasals in various repre- Aryan and Greek, when not standing ..."
2. A Short Comparative Grammar of English and German, as Traced Back to Their by Victor Henry (1894)
"(39) The regular tendency of the nasals, throughout the Indo-European family,
... A language, therefore, must possess as many nasals as it has classes of ..."
3. A Manual of Sanskrit Phonetics: In Comparison with the Indogermanic Mother by Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (1898)
"Final nasals. In general it is a rule, ... All nasals except -m, when preceded
by a short vowel, are doubled before any initial vowel. ..."
4. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"nasals.—The nasals are broad in proportion to the total breadth of the snout.
At their maximum breadth, which is at the junctions of nasals, ..."
5. Records of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1875)
"In Hippopotamus the inferior border of the orbit is placed over the hinder barrel
of the second molar, and in Sus over the middle of the last molar. nasals. ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"This rule applies also to k and ch, which, when combined with the nasals ...
A similar rule respecting the conjunction of nasals with sonants alone is found ..."
7. Appendix to Bennett's Latin Grammar for Teachers and Advanced Students by Charles Edwin Bennett (1895)
"The nasals as Consonants. 101. As consonants the Latin nasals exhibit few ...
These Indo-European sonant nasals developed in Latin regularly as em and en, ..."
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