vowelhood

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English

Etymology

From vowel +‎ -hood.

Noun

vowelhood (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The property of being a vowel.
    • 1997, Hyeon-Kwan Cho, A Phonological Analysis of Consonantal Assimilations and Consonant-vowel Interactions, page 159:
      However, since timing tiers lack the information of consonanthood and vowelhood in other syllable theories, consonanthood and vowelhood must be defined in different ways depending on phonological theories.

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