schwa

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ʃwə/|/ʃwʌ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
    — The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.
  2. Alternative form of shva. alt-of,alternative
  3. The name of the Latin script letter Ə/ə.
动词 v.
  1. To be reduced to schwa. rare

词形变化

schwas plural shwa alternative schwə alternative,rare schwas present,singular,third-person schwaing participle,present schwaed participle,past schwaed past shwa alternative schwə alternative,rare schwas plural

词源

Borrowed from German Schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (shva, šəwā, “(mark indicating reduction or absence of a vowel)”), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫ̈ܘܰܝܳܐ (š'wayyā, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence. Doublet of shva.
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