Laut

Meaning

1. (masculine, strong) any sound
2. (masculine, strong) sound made by a person or animal
3. (masculine, strong) sound of a language, phoneme

Concepts

sound

🔉

noise

ton

phone

☎️

phoneme

voice

vocal sound

are

Chinese-derived character reading

call

lingual sound

Synonyms

Ton

Schall

🔉

Klang

🔉

Hall

Geräusch

Ruf

Schrei

Stimme

Schrift

Töne

Vokabel

Wechsel

Wort

тембрKlang

Vox

Hall, Laut, Klang, Schall

Buchstabe

Geräusch Schall

Klänge

Krach

Lärm

Laute

mündlich

Phonem

Rufe

Translations

sonido

🔉

geluid

🔉

suono

🔉

son

🔉

som

🔉

klank

🔉

gerucht

ήχος

ses

so

🔉

bruit

rumore

galm

son

Dialects

Fribourg

luut

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/laʊ̯t/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: lūt

Inherited from Old High German: lūt

Cognate with Dutch: luid

Cognate with Old English: hlȳd

Cognate with Old Norse: hljóð

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: ljod

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸

Cognate with Danish: lyd

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: lyd

In summary

From Middle High German lūt, from Old High German lūt, hlūt m, from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd m or n (“sound”), derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud”).
Cognate with Dutch luid, geluid, Middle Low German lût, Old Frisian hlūd. Different formations from the same root are Old English hlȳd and Old Norse hljóð (whence Danish lyd etc.).

Sentences

Er hört den Laut und „ liest “ die Form .

He hears the sound and "reads" the shape.

Laut eigenen Angaben ist Brandes ledig .

According to his own statements, Brandes is single.

Außerdem ist er der dritte Buchstabe des vietnamesischen Alphabets und stellt den Laut dar .

It is also the third letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents the sound.