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semivowel

noun

Etymology

From semi- + vowel.

  1. derived from vōcālis
  2. derived from vouel
  3. inherited from vowel
  4. prefixed as semivowel — “semi + vowel”

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semivowel. 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