phonetics

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)

Ancient Greek φωνέω (phōnéō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)

Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós)der.

Latin phōnēticusbor.

English phonetic

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ms

Proto-Indo-European *-omsder.

Proto-Germanic *-anzder.?

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂m̥s

Proto-Germanic *-ōz

Proto-Germanic *-ōsder.?

Old English -as

Middle English -es

English -s

English phonetics

From phonetic + -s. By surface analysis, phone (“linguistic unit of sound”) + -etic + -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈnɛt.ɪks/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): [fəˈnɛʔəks], [fəˈnɛhəks]
• Rhymes: -ɛtɪks
• Hyphenation: pho‧ne‧tics, phon‧et‧ics

Noun

phonetics (uncountable)

2. (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

   Synonym: phonics

   Coordinate terms: phonemics, phonics

   This dictionary shows the phonetics of the words.

Derived terms

• acoustic phonetics
• articulatory phonetics
• auditory phonetics
• ideophonetics
• psychophonetics
• sociophonetics

Related terms

• International Phonetic Alphabet
• phonetic
• phonetician
• phonology

Translations

study of speech sounds and their representation by written symbols

• Afrikaans: fonetiek
• Arabic: صَوْتِيَات pl (ṣawtiyāt)
• Armenian: հնչյունաբանություն (hy) (hnčʻyunabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: fonética (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: fonetika, sövtiyyat
• Bashkir: фонетика (funitika)
• Bengali: ধ্বনিবিজ্ঞান (bn) (dhonibiggên)
• Bulgarian: фонетика (bg) f (fonetika)
• Burmese: သဒ္ဒဗေဒ (my) (sadda.beda.)
• Catalan: fonètica f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 語音學 / 语音学 (jyu⁵ jam¹ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 語音學 / 语音学 (gír-im-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 語音學 / 语音学 (zh) (yǔyīnxué)

• Chuvash: фонетика (fonet̬ik̬a)
• Crimean Tatar: savtiyat, fonetika
• Czech: fonetika f
• Danish: fonetik (da) c
• Dutch: fonetiek (nl) f, klankleer (nl) m or f
• Erzya: фонетика (fonetika), гайтьсодамо (gajťsodamo)
• Esperanto: fonetiko
• Faroese: ljóðfrøði f, ljóðlæra f
• Finnish: fonetiikka (fi), ääntöoppi (fi)
• French: phonétique (fr) f
• Galician: fonética (gl) f
• German: Phonetik (de) f, Lautlehre f
• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} ñe'ẽpukuaaty

• Hindi: स्वरविज्ञान (hi) m (svarvijñān), स्वनविज्ञान m (svanvijñān)
• Hungarian: fonetika (hu)
• Indonesian: fonetik (id)
• Interlingua: phonetica
• Irish: foghraíocht f
• Italian: fonetica (it) f
• Japanese: 音声学 (ja) (おんせいがく, onseigaku)
• Kazakh: фонетика (fonetiyka)
• Khmer: សទ្ទិកវិទ្យា (satti’ak vityie), សព្ទសញ្ញាវិទ្យា (sap saññaa vityie)
• Korean: 음성학(音聲學) (ko) (eumseonghak), 어음학 (eo'eumhak)
• Latvian: fonētika f
• Lithuanian: fonetika (lt) f
• Macedonian: фонетика f (fonetika)
• Malay: fonetik (ms), kaji bunyi bahasa
• Manx: sheeanaghtys m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: авиазүй (aviazüi)

  Mongolian script: ᠠᠪᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ
  ᠵᠦᠢ (abiy-a ǰüi)

• N'Ko: ߡߍ߲ߞߊ߲ߟߐ߲ߘߐߦߊ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fonetikk (no) m

• Occitan: fonetica (oc) f
• Persian: آواشناسی (fa) (âvâšenâsi), صوتیات (sowtiyyât)
• Polish: fonetyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fonética (pt) f
• Romanian: fonetică (ro) f
• Russian: фоне́тика (ru) f (fonɛ́tika)
• Santali: ᱟᱲᱟᱝ ᱥᱟᱬᱮᱥ (aṛaṅ saṇes)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фонѐтика f

  Latin: fonètika (sh) f

• Sindhi: وايوڪيات (sd) f (vāeokyāt)
• Slovak: fonetika (sk) f
• Slovene: fonetika f
• Spanish: fonética (es) f
• Swahili: fonetiki (sw)
• Swedish: fonetik (sv) c
• Tagalog: palatinigan
• Tajik: савтиёт (savtiyot), фонетика (tg) (fonetika)
• Tamil: ஒலியியல் (ta) (oliyiyal), ஒலிப்பியல் (olippiyal)
• Thai: สัทศาสตร์ (th) (sàt-tá-sàat)
• Turkish: sesbilgisi, fonetik (tr)
• Ukrainian: фоне́тика f (fonétyka)
• Urdu: صَوْتِیَّاتْ (savtiyyāt)
• Uzbek: savtiyot (uz), fonetika (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngữ âm học (vi) (語音學)
• Welsh: seineg f
• Yiddish: פֿאָנעטיק f (fonetik)

Anagrams

• Ctesiphon, sphenotic