šva
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (š’vā).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
šva n (indeclinable)
- (linguistics) schwa (mid central vowel sound)
- shva (one of the Hebrew nikud vowel signs)
Further reading edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
šva m (Cyrillic spelling шва)
Slovak edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately, from Hebrew שְׁוָא (sh'va, š’vā, “nought”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
šva n (indeclinable)
Further reading edit
- “šva”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024