shwa
English edit
Noun edit
shwa (plural shwas)
- Alternative form of schwa
- 1979, Thomas Burrow, The problem of shwa in Sanskrit, page 33:
- This analysis arises only from the needs of the shwa theory, which does not allow short a to be the reduced grade of long a, and it has nothing else to recommend it.
Anagrams edit
Shona edit
Noun edit
shwá class 9 (plural shwá class 10)
Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.
Verb edit
shwa
- to die