vowel
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English vouel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
- In Welsh, the w usually represents a vowel.
- (orthography) A letter representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y.
- Facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
Usage notes
[edit]- Apart from a and possibly o, all vowel letters may also represent consonants (semivowels) in English. For example, y in yes, i in Spaniard, u in persuade.
Antonyms
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[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from vowel
- back vowel
- cardinal vowel
- dark vowel
- disemvowel
- echo vowel
- front vowel
- full vowel
- gliding vowel
- half-long vowel
- happy vowel
- inherent vowel
- lax vowel
- long vowel
- long-vowel mark
- nasal vowel
- natural vowel
- neutral vowel
- oral vowel
- overlong vowel
- prop vowel
- R-coloured vowel
- reduced vowel
- rounded vowel
- semivowel
- semi-vowel
- short vowel
- tense vowel
- thematic vowel
- unrounded vowel
- vowel harmony
- vowelization, vowelisation
- vowelize, vowelise
- vowel killer
- vowelless
- vowelling
- vowel lowering
- vowel mutation
- vowel point
- vowel pointing
- vowel quantity
- vowel reduction
- vowel rhyme
- vowel sign
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì
Translations
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See also
[edit]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
Verb
[edit]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).
- 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 52:
- However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […] , plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […] .
Synonyms
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[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wekʷ-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/aʊəl
- Rhymes:English/aʊəl/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/aʊl
- Rhymes:English/aʊl/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Phonetics
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Orthography
- English verbs
- en:Linguistics
- English terms with quotations