vowel英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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.
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.

动词 v.

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

— However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […], plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […].

词形变化

vowels plural vowels present,singular,third-person voweling US,participle,present vowelling UK,participle,present voweled US,participle,past voweled US,past vowelled UK,participle,past vowelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词

back vowel cardinal vowel dark vowel disemvowel echo vowel front vowel full vowel gliding vowel half-long vowel happy vowel inherent vowel lax vowel linking vowel long vowel long-vowel mark nasal vowel natural vowel neutral vowel oral vowel overlong vowel prop vowel R-coloured vowel R-colored vowel reduced vowel rhotacized vowel rounded vowel semi-vowel semivowel short vowel tense vowel thematic vowel unrounded vowel vowel harmony vowelization vowelisation vowelize vowelise vowel killer vowelless vowelling vowel lowering vowel mutation vowel point vowel pointing vowel quantity vowel reduction vowel rhyme vowel sign weak vowel merger

词源

词源 1

From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.

词源 2

From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.