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Semivowel Moderate

Semivowel has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

2

A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.

See Also
w glide semivocal vocalic y semiconsonant stang's law consonant
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
phone
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
palatal
Rhyming Words
wel owel dowel howel nowel bowel tewel sewel rowel newel towel vowel jewel hywel pawel trowel thowel knawel shewel crewel
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