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lax vowel

noun

Etymology

Compound of lax + vowel.

  1. derived from vōcālis
  2. derived from vouel
  3. inherited from vowel
  4. compounded as lax vowel — “lax + vowel”

Definitions

  1. A vowel produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

    • Some vowels in English are made with roughly the same tongue position as the tense vowels, but with less constricted articulation; they are called lax vowels.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lax vowel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA