vowel
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
- 2.
(orthography) A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
Đồng nghĩa: vowelize, vocalize
Từ liên quan
Trái nghĩa
Cùng gốc / liên quan
Từ có viền nét liền là đã có mục từ; viền nét đứt là chưa có trong dữ liệu.
Nguồn gốc từ
ine-pro From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (voiced), itself a semantic loan of φωνῆεν. vocal vocalis.