Sekirov Dictionary

vowel

/ˈvaʊ.əl/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

•
A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
•
A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
- 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.

verb1

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

forms

voweled · vowelled · voweling · vowelling · vowels

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