noun ach-laut the voiceless velar fricative sound that is written as ch in Scottish loch or in German ach, often allophonic with the ich-laut 3
noun ach-laut The guttural phoneme /x/ (the voiceless velar fricative) of the German language, the sound of the letters ch in German coming immediately after a, o and u (central and back vowels), also found in other languages. 0