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English
Etymology
From semi- + vowel.
Pronunciation
Noun
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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
- 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
- German: Halbvokal (de), Semivokal
- Greek: ημίφωνο (el) n (imífono)
- Ancient: ἡμίφωνον n (hēmíphōnon)
- Hebrew: חצי־תנועה f (khatsí-tnuá)
- Hungarian: félhangzó (hu)
- Italian: semivocale f, semiconsonante f
- Japanese: 半母音 (はんぼいん, hanboin)
- Korean: 반모음 (ko) (banmo'eum)
- Latin: semivocalis
- Macedonian: полусамо́гласка f (polusamóglaska)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: halvvokal
- Polish: spółgłoska półotwarta f
- Portuguese: semivogal (pt) f
- Romanian: semivocală (ro)
- Russian: полугла́сный (ru) m (poluglásnyj)
- Spanish: semivocal f, semiconsonante (es), vocoide (es) m
- Swedish: halvvokal
- Tagalog: malapatinig
- Vietnamese: bán nguyên âm (vi)
- Welsh: lled-lafariad f, llithrolyn m
- West Frisian: healfokaal m
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