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vocoid

noun
/ˈvoʊ.kɔɪd/US

Etymology

From voc(al) + -oid. First appears c. the 1940s, coined by Kenneth Lee Pike, American linguist (1912-2000).

  1. derived from vōcālis
  2. inherited from vocal
  3. formed as vocoid — “vocal + -oid”

Definitions

  1. A phonetic vowel, as opposed to a phonological one.

  2. A sound or segment that has some vowel-like feature and may or may not be able to occupy…

    A sound or segment that has some vowel-like feature and may or may not be able to occupy a nucleus; often includes semivowels, semiconsonants, and any non-syllabic or non-nucleic vowel

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vocoid. 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