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tense vowel

noun

Etymology

Compound of tense + vowel.

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

Definitions

  1. A vowel produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.

    • All of the vowels illustrated [...] are tense vowels; they are produced with a placement of the tongue that results in greater vocal tract constriction than that of nontense vowels...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tense 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