phonetics
English
/fəˈnɛtɪks/
noun
Definitions
- (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.
Etymology
Affix from English phonetic root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (speak, shine, say, glow).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰeh₂-
Gloss
speak, shine, say, glow
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
🗣️ 🗣️ 🙊
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dysphonetic English
- ideophonetic English
- ideophonetics English
- morphophonetic English
- nonphonetic English
- phone English
- phonetic English
- phonetical English
- phonetically English
- phonetician English
- phoneticism English
- phoneticist English
- phoneticize English
- phonology English
- pictophonetic English
- prephonetic English
- psychophonetic English
- psychophonetics English
- semiphonetic English
- sociophonetic English
- sociophonetics English
- unphonetic English
- confessus Latin
- confābulātiōnem Latin
- cōnfābulārī Latin
- fabulosus Latin
- facundus Latin
- fata Latin
- fatum Latin
- focus Latin
- fābula Latin
- fābulōsus Latin
- fātum Latin
- fētiālēs Latin
- infans Latin
- phōnēticus Latin
- professio Latin
- professiō Latin
- professor Latin
- professus Latin
- profiteor Latin
- profitērī Latin
- īnfāntem, īnfāns Latin
- fonologia Italian
- fonosemantica Italian
- fonosimbolo Italian
- fotogenia Italian
- fotogenicità Italian
- xilofonista Italian
- xilofono Italian
- dysphémisme French
- photogénique French
- habladuría Spanish, Castilian
- xilofonista Spanish, Castilian
- xilófono Spanish, Castilian
- -φωνος Ancient Greek
- -φωνος, φωνή Ancient Greek
- βλασφημέω Ancient Greek
- βλασφημία Ancient Greek
- διαφαίνω Ancient Greek
- εὐφημισμός Ancient Greek
- παμφανόων Ancient Greek
- προφήτης Ancient Greek
- συκοφάντης Ancient Greek
- φάσις Ancient Greek
- φαινόμενον Ancient Greek
- φανή Ancient Greek
- φωνέω Ancient Greek
- φωνή Ancient Greek
- φωνήεις Ancient Greek
- φωνητῐκός Ancient Greek
- φώνημα Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰστῐκός Ancient Greek
- φᾰντᾰσῐ́ᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἀφασία Ancient Greek
- ἐμφατικός Ancient Greek
- ἐπιφάνεια Ancient Greek
- ἔμφασις Ancient Greek
- ἱεροφάντης Ancient Greek
- *bʰeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂-, *bʰ-né-h₂-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂-meh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰeh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂-new-ti, bʰh₂-n̥w-énti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰh₂wesnós Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰn̥h₂-é-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰoh₂-néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂meh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰéh₂ti Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- bʰeh₂, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- bʰh₂-sḱéti, *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- fadista Portuguese
- fado Portuguese
- *bannaną Proto-Germanic
- *bannijaną Proto-Germanic
- *bōniz Proto-Germanic
- *bōnō Proto-Germanic
- भनति Sanskrit
- भान Sanskrit
- भाषति Sanskrit
- भाषते Sanskrit
- भाषा Sanskrit
- fabhalscéal Irish
- fabhalscéalaí Irish
- fabhalscéalaíocht Irish
- banna Old Norse
- bón Old Norse
- *bajьka Proto-Slavic
- bæn Icelandic
- bón Icelandic
- bahasa Indonesia Indonesian
- ban Middle Dutch
- բառ Old Armenian
- bahasa Malay
- bahasa Malaysia Malay
- bëzej Albanian
- *bōnōn gmw-pro
- *bānos Proto-Celtic
- bōnen Middle Low German
- *bʰaH- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *bʰáHšaH Proto-Indo-Iranian
- fonetiki Swahili
- *fatēōr Proto-Italic
- *fāðlā Proto-Italic
- *fāōr Proto-Italic
- enfanter xno
- *mləspʰāmos Proto-Hellenic
- *pʰáňňō Proto-Hellenic
- бон Ossetian, Ossetic