“vorlaut”—can be used as an adjective in the sense of ‘cheeky’ (person) or in the context of dogs that bay too early. However, it can also be understood as a noun denoting a previous sound.

To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know it at all, here is the re-transformation into the source language. In the case of phonemic pictures whose source language is not English, a translation into English is also carried out.