Borrowed fromGermanSchwa, fromHebrewשווא / שְׁוָא(shva, šəwā,“(mark mostly indicating absence of a vowel sound)”), borrowed fromClassical Syriacܫ̈ܘܰܝܳܐ(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 ofshva.
schwa (pluralschwas)
- (phonetics) An indeterminate centralvowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ inIPA.
- 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”, inTransactions of the American Philological Association, page67: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 forme before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhereo.
2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, inLanguage Variation and Change, volume18, number 2, Cambridge University Press,→DOI:However, word-final unstressedschwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
- The characterə.
schwa (third-person singular simple presentschwas,present participleschwaing,simple past and past participleschwaed)
- (phonetics, of avowel sound, rare) To bereduced to schwa.
indeterminate central vowel
- ^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)”, inLĕšonénu: A Journal for the Study of the Hebrew Language and Cognate Subjects / לשוננו: כתב-עת לחקר הלשון העברית והתחומים הסמוכים לה[1], volumeי"ט (19), numberקובץ מיוחד תשי"ד (special file 2014), Academy of the Hebrew Language, pages13-30
schwa (pluralschwas)
- Alternative form ofshva
Borrowed fromGermanSchwa orEnglishschwa, fromHebrewשווא / שְׁוָא(sh'va ,š’vā,“nought”).
schwa m orf (invariable)
- (phonetics)schwa(mid-central vowel)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishschwa.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /ʃuˈa/[ʃʊˈa],(faster pronunciation)/ˈʃwa/,/ʃeˈva/
schwa m (pluralschwas)
- (phonetics)schwa(mid-central vowel)
