schwa
See also: Schwa
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From German Schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (sh'va, š’vā, “(mark mostly indicating absence of a vowel sound)”), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫ̈ܘܰܝܳܐ (š'wayyā, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence.[1] Doublet of shva.
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
schwa (plural schwas)
- (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
- Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel
- Hyponym: schwar
- Coordinate terms: a-schwa, e-schwa, i-schwa, schwar, schwi
- 1882, B. W. Wells, “The Ablaut in English”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, page 67:
- The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.
- 2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, :
- However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style […]
- The character ə.
Verb edit
schwa (third-person singular simple present schwas, present participle schwaing, simple past and past participle schwaed)
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Translations edit
indeterminate central vowel
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Further reading edit
- ^ אהרן דותן (דויטשר) (Aron Dotan a.k.a. Aron Deutscher) (1953) “שמותיו של השוא בראשיתו של הדקדוק העברי (The names of the schwa at the beginning of Hebrew grammar)”, in Lĕšonénu: A Journal for the Study of the Hebrew Language and Cognate Subjects / לשוננו: כתב-עת לחקר הלשון העברית והתחומים הסמוכים לה[1], volume י"ט (19), number קובץ מיוחד תשי"ד (special file 2014), Academy of the Hebrew Language, pages 13-30
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
schwa (plural schwas)
- Alternative form of shva
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Italian edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Schwa or English schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (sh'va ,š’vā, “nought”).
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Noun edit
schwa m or f (invariable)
- (phonetics) schwa (mid-central vowel)
Portuguese edit
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English schwa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
schwa m (plural schwas)