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vocalism

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor. Middle English vocal English vocal Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English vocalism From vocal + -ism.

  1. derived from -ism English vocalism From vocal + -ism
  2. derived from *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin vōcālisbor✻
  3. derived from *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōx Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der✻
  4. derived from *wekʷ-der✻

Definitions

  1. Speaking or singing.

    • The exciting vocalism of Leontyne Price

  2. The vowel sounds used in a language.

  3. The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or…

    The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or group of words.

    • All forms contain a base *θirr- or *θurr-. Types 1 and 2 [which contain *θirr] may have been influenced by θirri̯are 'to screech', suggesting that the forms with *θurr- preserve the original vocalism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vocalism. 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