semivowel

English

Alternative forms

• semi-vowel

Etymology

semi- +‎ vowel

Noun

Examples (sound, English)
/j/ in yes /w/ in west

semivowel (plural semivowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.

   Synonyms: glide, semiconsonant

2. A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.

Translations

sound in speech

• Arabic: أَشْبَاهُ العِلَلِ (ʔašbāhu l-ʕilali)
• Armenian: կիսաձայն (hy) (kisajayn)
• Breton: damvogalenn (br), damgensonenn (br)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 半元音 (zh) (bànyuányīn), 半母音 (zh) (bànmǔyīn)

• Czech: polosamohláska f
• Danish: halvvokal
• Dutch: halfvocaal (nl) m, halfklinker (nl) m
• Esperanto: duonvokalo
• Finnish: puolivokaali (fi)
• French: semi-voyelle (fr) f, semi-consonne (fr) f
• German: Halbvokal (de), Semivokal
• Greek: ημίφωνο (el) n (imífono)

  Ancient: ἡμίφωνον n (hēmíphōnon)

• Hebrew: חצי־תנועה f (khatsí-tnuá)
• Hungarian: félhangzó (hu)
• Italian: semivocale f, semiconsonante f
• Japanese: 半母音 (はんぼいん, hanboin)
• Korean: 반모음 (ko) (banmo'eum)
• Latin: semivocalis
• Macedonian: полусамо́гласка f (polusamóglaska)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halvvokal
• Polish: spółgłoska półotwarta f
• Portuguese: semivogal (pt) f
• Romanian: semivocală (ro)
• Russian: полугла́сный (ru) m (poluglásnyj)
• Spanish: semivocal f, semiconsonante (es), vocoide (es) m
• Swedish: halvvokal
• Tagalog: malapatinig
• Vietnamese: bán nguyên âm (vi)
• Welsh: lled-lafariad f
• West Frisian: healfokaal m

See also

• consonant

Further reading

• semivowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia