Einlautung

German Etymology de :af ein<t:in> Laut<t:sound> -ung<t:-ing> From de ein in Laut sound -ung -ing. Noun f de 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 For example, the standard German word de echt real, genuine was first borrowed into the Ripuarian dialect as gmw-cfr ech. Here the loss of -t is not a case of de Einlautung because Ripuarian simply does not allow final -t after another obstruent. However, the word was then further adapted by way of de Einlautung in the variant gmw-cfr ääch, where the lengthening of the vowel follows such pairs as German de schlecht, de recht vis-à-vis Ripuarian gmw-cfr schlääch, gmw-cfr rääch, etc. Declension f