different between vowel vs schwa

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin v?c?lis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek ?????? (ph?nêen). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vou??l, IPA^(key): /?va?.?l/
• (also) enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a??l, -a?l

Noun

vowel (plural vowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
2. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

Antonyms

• (sound): consonant
• (letter): consonant

Derived terms

Related terms

• vocalic
• consonant
• liquid

See also

• vocalization

Placing of an element:

• prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
• intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
• postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

• front, central, back
• rounded, unrounded
• close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

Translations

Verb

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

Translations

Synonyms

• vowelize
• vocalize

Anagrams

• wolve

English

Alternative forms

• shwa

Etymology

From German Schwa, from Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (sh'va ,š’v?, “nought”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shwä, IPA^(key): /?w?/
• (humourous, unstressed) IPA^(key): /?w?/

Noun

schwa (plural schwas)

1. (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /?/ in IPA.

   Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel

   Coordinate terms: a-schwa, schwi

   Hyponym: schwar
2. The character ?.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• schwa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• chaws

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• xuá (rare)
• xevá (rare)
• chevá (rare)

Noun

schwa m (plural schwas)

1. (phonetics) schwa (mid-central vowel)