Nasal

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to the nose.
 * 2)  Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.

Noun

 * 1) An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such asm and n.
 * 2)   A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
 * 3)  A nasal vowel or consonant.
 * 4)  Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
 * 5) * 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78,
 * The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
 * 1)  One of the nasal bones.
 * 2)  A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

Thesaurus
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, asthmatic, back, barytone, bilabial, blurred, breathing, breathy, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, choked, choking, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, croaking, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, drawling, drawly, dysphonic, epenthetic vowel, errhine, expiratory, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, harsh, hawking, heaving, heavy, high, hoarse, huffing, inarticulate, indistinct, inspiratory, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, lisping, low, manner of articulation, mid, mispronounced, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, muzzy, narrow, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, panting, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, pneumonic, posttonic, prothetic vowel, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, quavering, respiratory, retroflex, rhinal, rounded, segmental phoneme, semivowel, shaking, shaky, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, sternutatory, stertorous, stifled, stop, stopped, strangled, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, tremulous, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wheezing, wheezy, wide

Etymology
nasalis:

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese: nasal
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: nasal


 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: nazal, genizsil
 * Welsh:

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Portuguese: nasal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,

Derived terms

 * nasal bone (anatomy)
 * nasal cavity (anatomy)
 * nasal fossa (anatomy)
 * nasal index (anatomy)
 * nasal vowel (phonetics)

Anagrams

 * alans, Alans
 * Aslan

Adjective

 * 1) nasal

Related terms

 * nasale
 * nasalisation
 * nasaliser
 * naseau
 * nasiller
 * nez

Adjective

 * 1) nasal

Etymology
Latin nasus + -al

Related terms

 * Nase

Compounds

 * nasalieren
 * Nasalierung
 * Nasalität
 * Nasallaut

Adjective

 * 1) nasal

Noun

 * 1) nasal consonant

Noun

 * 1) nasal bone

Related terms

 * nasalação
 * nasalar
 * nasalidade
 * nariz

Adjective

 * 1) nasal

Noun

 * 1) nasal consonant

Related terms

 * nasalidad
 * nasalización
 * nasalizar
 * nariz