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vowel
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)
- (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- (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)
- (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)
Translations
Synonyms
- vowelize
- vocalize
Anagrams
- wolve
vowel From the web:
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- what vowels follow the soft c
- what vowels make the schwa sound
- what vowel says its name
- what vowel sound is oo
- what vowel means
syllabicity
English
Etymology
syllabic +? -ity
Pronunciation
- (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /?s?l??b?s?ti/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?s?l??b?s?ti/
Noun
syllabicity (uncountable)
- The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.
- The syllabicity of Proto-Indo-European syllabic sonorants *y and *w can easily be determined by a rule.
Derived terms
- ambisyllabicity
syllabicity From the web:
- what does syllabic mean
- what does syllabicity
- what is mean syllabicity
- what is syllabicity in english
- what is syllabic word
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