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mutually intelligible en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of two or more speech varieties, able to be understood by one another's speakers.
   • Another important point is that Homer recognises that the speech of Trojans and Greeks was mutually intelligible. 1917, F. W. H. Migeod, The Racial Elements Concerned in the First Siege of Troy, in Man, Vol. 17
   • This language, or mutually intelligible forms of it, is spoken by the coast-dwellers over an extensive area 1860, Alfred R. Wallace, Notes of a Voyage to New Guinea, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 30

Antonyms

mutually unintelligible

Relateds

mutual intelligibility

Synonyms

intercomprehensible · interintelligible

Translations (9)

cs vzájemně srozumitelný (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · de gegenseitig verständlich (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · ru взаимопоня́тный (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · hu kölcsönösen érthető (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · fr intercompréhensible (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · cmn 互通 (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · es mutuamente inteligible (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · fi keskinäisesti ymmärrettävä (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety) · pl wzajemnie zrozumiały (of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety)