Einlautung
German, noun
Einlautung is spelled E-I-N-L-A-U-T-U-N-G (10 letters). Einlautung is a German feminine noun meaning “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…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Einlautung mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininethe 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
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Einlautung
- Einlautungen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).