Word Finder - vowel

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A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

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A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

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To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

I have n't yet figured the vowel harmony thing.

In English, moreover, the vowel sounds tend to become diphthongs, so that the symbol for the simple sound tends to become the symbol for that combination which we call a diphthong.

W2 to blend to read words containing the same vowel diagraphs and triagraphs.

In the case of the latter, the survival of the syllable "man" in Le Mans is due to the stress laid on the vowel; had the vowel been short and unaccented, it would have disappeared.

In the Dvenos inscription the perfect of facio is _feted; here it is a reduplicated form with the same vowel as the present.

In other languages, like Oscan and Umbrian which are closely akin to Latin, or the Welsh branch of the Celtic languages, p occurs regularly without regard to the nature of the vowel following.

Thus the second element of a compound word, even though written and accented as a separate word, has a soft initial, because in Brythonic the first element of a compound generally ended in a vowel, as in the name Maglo-cunos.

Accidence.-Welsh has a definite article yr, " the," which becomes r after a vowel, and y before a consonant unless already reduced to r.

A similar tone of exaggerated depreciation of the Massoretic Hebrew text, coloured by polemical bias against Protestantism, mars his greatest work, the posthumous Exercitationes biblicae de hebraeici graecique textus sinceritate (1660), in which, following in the footsteps of Cappellus, but with incomparably greater learning, he brings irrefragable arguments against the then current theory of the absolute integrity of the Hebrew text and the antiquity of the vowel points.

For the sake of euphony, a vowel is frequently interpolated between two consonants; e.g.

I tonic long and i short, when in hiatus with another vowel, produce i (amich, a in i c u 1; via, vi a).

In the same way the supporting vowel, which is regularly an e in CataIan, is often written a, especially after r (abra, ar bore m; astra, a s t r u m; para, p a t r e in); one may say that in the actual state of the language post-tonic e and a become indistinguishable in a surd sound intermediate between the French a and mute e.

Final d after a vowel has produced u (pea, p e d e in; niu, n i d u m; mou, to o d u m); buf when the d, in consequence of the disappearance of the preceding vowel, rests upon a consonant, it remains and passes into the corresponding surd; f r I g i d u s gives fred (pronounced fret).

The group di, when produced by the disappearance of the intermediate vowel, becomes ur (creure, c red crc; ociure, 0 c c i d e r e; veure, v i d b r e; seure, s e d C r e).

Again, Portuguese alone has preserved the pluperfect in its original meaning, so that, for example, amara (a m a v e r a hi) signifies not merely as elsewhere I would love, but also I had Loved, The future perfect, retained as in Castilian, has lost its vowel of inflexion in the 1st and 3rd pers.

In many varieties of the Greek alphabet this symbol was used, as it always was in Latin, for the long as well as the short o-sound and also for the long vowel (in the Ionic alphabet written ov) which arose from contraction of two vowels or the loss of a consonant (57jXoUTE=677XOere, o'lxovs = oircovs).

The most important feature of this vowel is the rounding of the lips in its production, which, according to its degree, modifies the nature of the vowel considerably, as can be observed in the pronunciation of the increasingly rounded series saw, no, who.

Though short o changed in the Latin of the last age of the Roman republic to u in unaccented syllables always (except after u whether vowel or consonant), and sometimes also in accented syllables, this was not equally true of vulgar Latin, as is shown by the Romance languages.

The long vowel becomes more rounded as it is being pronounced, so that it ends in a u-sound, though this is not so noticeable in weak syllables like the final syllable of follow.

A mid-front-narrow-round vowel is found short in French words like peu, long in jeune and in endings like that of honteuse.

Those of us who have always made the standard vowel alternation will have no such trouble.

Both languages have an assimilation process which spreads nasality from a nasal consonant to the preceding vowel.

Magic e - an exercise to use a split vowel digraph to change the meaning of a word.

Lyapunov exponents for the same vowel shown as a function of embedding dimension.

Different pitches are derived by shifting the fundamental and overtones while leaving the vowel formants relatively untouched.

Finally, we offer a critique of the practice of vowel formant analysis, suggesting a new means of data normalization.

The vowel [I] is becoming less frequent in weak syllables.

In addition, the data indicate that the neural mechanisms involved in vowel identification receive an input from those responsible for the continuity illusion.

We were told to teach first initial then final sounds and then medial vowel sounds.

Metzger also considers the possibility that " the final nu came into the text in order to avoid hiatus with the following vowel " .

The nasal percept does not depend on continuity between the formants of the vowel and nasal consonant.

Other lists focus on common vowel phonemes or a mixture of phonemes.

After the voiceless alveolar plosive comes a mid back rounded vowel, and after that a rather long uvular nasal.

Speech will sound like a series of vowel sounds; word endings, which indicate plurals and tenses, will be missing.

The assessment carried out by experienced listeners consisted in marking the sounds heard on the vowel quadrilateral.

The experiments examined cases where the residue was either a CV syllable with a lax vowel, or a CVC syllable with a lax vowel, or a CVC syllable with a schwa.

The formant structure of the nasal prototype has little effect on the nasal percept when it is preceded by a vowel.

Actually, " w " can represent either a vowel or a consonant in Welsh spelling.

Lesson 2 e at the end of a word sometimes makes the preceding vowel ' hard ' .

In Bengali, however, nasality is initially interpreted as an underlying nasal vowel.

To them we must add schwa (right ), the weak vowel of a go, b a nan a.

David Smith and Roy Patterson An analysis of Peterson and Barney's vowel formant data to investigate the evidence for scaling in human vowel formant data to investigate the evidence for scaling in human vowels.

The Swahili followers of the first explorers always pronounced the territorial prefix, Bu, as a simple vowel, U; hence the incorrect rendering " Uganda " of the more primitive Bantu designation.

The text of the Old 'Testament consists of consonants only, for the alphabet of the ancient Hebrews, like that of their Moabite, Aramaean and Phoenician neighbours, contained no vowels; the text of the interpretation consists of vowels and accents only - for vowel signs and accents had been invented by Jewish scholars between the 5th and 9th centuries A.D.; the text of the Old Testament -is complete in itself and intelligible, though ambiguous; but the text of the interpretation read by itself is unintelligible, and only becomes intelligible when read with the consonants (under, over, or in which they are inserted) of the text of the Old Testament.

The name Paezigni may belong to the NO-class of Ethnica (see Sabini), but the difference that it has no vowel before the suffix suggests that it may rather be parallel with the suffix of Lat.

Of the existence of the vowel 0 there is no evidence.

He may also be said to be the founder of the fixed-pitch theory of vowel tones, according to which it is asserted that the pitch of a vowel depends on the resonance of the mouth, according to the form of the cavity while singing it, and this independently of the pitch of the note on which the vowel is sung.

The epithet Maleatas, which, as the quantity of the first vowel (a) shows,' cannot mean god of "sheep" or "the apple-tree," is probably a local adjective derived from Malea (perhaps Cape Malea), and may refer to an originally distinct personality, subsequently merged in that of Apollo (see below).

The Old Slavonic words lyepo, byelo, are pronounced by the Servians of Herzegovina, Bosnia, Montenegro, Dalmatia, Croatia and south-western Servia as leeyepo, beeyelo; by the Servians of Syrmia the same vowel is pronounced sometimes as e (lepo, belo), sometimes as ee (videeti, leteeti); by the Servians of the Morava valley and its accessory Ressava valley, always only as e (lepo, belo, videti, leteti).

With regard to the atonic vowels, there is a tendency to reduce a into a vowel resembling the Fr.