vowel

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n. 元音 a. 元音的

发音

其它 /ˈvaʊ.əl/
US /ˈvaʊ.əl/

词形变化

vowels 复数 vowels vowels 三单 voweling 现在分词 vowelling 现在分词 voweled 过去式 voweled 过去分词 vowelled 过去式 vowelled 过去分词

别名

V

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

    母音

    元音

    语言学

    Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.

  2. 2.

    A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (rarely), and y (sometimes).

    母音

    元音

    媒体

    The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.

    The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.

v.
  1. 1.

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

    语言学

词汇关系

名词

反义词 1

consonant

上位词 3

phone sound letter

下位词 10

ablaut back vowel diphthong front vowel long vowel nasal vowel oral vowel reduced vowel rounded vowel schwa

相关短语

vowel harmony 元音和谐律 vowel quantity vowel point n. 元音符号（表示元音的符号） vowel points vowel pointing vowel harmonies vowel quantities vowel reduction vowel reductions vowel mutation vowel mutations vowel killer vowel killers vowel rhyme 叠韵 vowel rhymes

词源

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.

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