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semivowel

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English

Alternative forms

semi-vowel

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sem-

Proto-Indo-European *sēmi

Latin sēmi-bor.

English semi-

Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs

Proto-Italic *wōks

Latin vōx

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin vōcālis

Old French voyeul

Old French vouelbor.

Middle English vowel

English vowel

English semivowel

From semi- + vowel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Examples (sound, English)
/j/ in yes /w/ in west

semivowel (plural semivowels)

(phonetics) A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.
Synonyms: glide, semiconsonant
A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.

Translations

sound in speech — see also semiconsonant,‎ glide,‎ vocoid

Albanian: gjysmëzanore (sq) f
Arabic: أَشْبَاهُ العِلَلِ (ʔašbāhu l-ʕilali)
Armenian: կիսաձայն (hy) (kisajayn)
Asturian: semivocal (ast), semiconsonante (ast), nidia (ast)
Breton: damvogalenn (br) f, damgensonenn (br) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 半元音 (zh) (bànyuányīn), 半母音 (zh) (bànmǔyīn)
Czech: polosamohláska f
Danish: halvvokal
Dutch: halfvocaal (nl) m, halfklinker (nl) m
Esperanto: duonvokalo
Finnish: puolivokaali (fi)
French: semi-voyelle (fr) f, semi-consonne (fr) f
Frisian:
West Frisian: healfokaal m
German: Halbvokal (de), Semivokal
Greek: ημίφωνο (el) n (imífono)
Ancient Greek: ἡμίφωνον n (hēmíphōnon)
Hebrew: חצי־תנועה f (khatsí-tnuá)
Hungarian: félhangzó (hu)
Italian: semivocale f, semiconsonante f
Japanese: 半母音 (ja) (はんぼいん, hanboin)
Korean: 반모음 (ko) (banmo'eum)
Latin: semivocalis
Macedonian: полусамо́гласка f (polusamóglaska)
Norwegian:
Nynorsk: halvvokal
Polish: półsamogłoska (pl) f
Portuguese: semivogal (pt) f
Romanian: semivocală (ro)
Russian: полугла́сный (ru) m (poluglásnyj)
Spanish: semivocal f
Swedish: halvvokal
Tagalog: malapatinig
Turkish: yarı-ünlü
Vietnamese: bán nguyên âm (vi)
Welsh: lled-lafariad f, llithrolyn m

See also

Further reading

semivowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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