nasal
Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
Other meanings
Having a sound 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.
“nasal vowel”
Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
“nasal utterance”
Related words
- hyponasality
- laryngonasal
- nasallang
- salpingonasal
- seminasal
- alinasal
- alveolonasal
- antronasal
- basinasal
- binasal
- bucconasal
- circumnasal
Word history
From Medieval Latin "nāsālis".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nasal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.