acoustically

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti

Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō

Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)

Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.

Medieval Latin acousticusbor.

English acoustic

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

Middle English -ally

English -ally

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English acoustic

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Middle English -al

English -al

English acoustical

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Middle English -ly

English -ly

English acoustically

From acoustic + -ally, or from acoustical + -ly.

Adverb

acoustically (not comparable)

1. (manner) In an acoustic manner, or using an acoustic musical instrument.
   • 2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily.

2. (domain) From the perspective of acoustics.

Translations

in an acoustic manner

• Dutch: akoestisch (nl)
• Finnish: akustisesti
• Galician: acusticamente
• Interlingua: acusticamente
• Italian: acusticamente (it)
• Polish: akustycznie
• Portuguese: acusticamente
• Spanish: acústicamente (es)
• Swedish: akustiskt (sv)