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semivocalic

Meaning of "semivocalic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SEMIVOCALIC

ˌsɛmɪvəʊˈkælɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEMIVOCALIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Semivocalic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEMIVOCALIC

alec · alkalic · Daedalic · didascalic · gallic · intermetallic · intervocalic · italic · italics · malic · malik · metallic · organometallic · pedocalic · phallic · postvocalic · prevocalic · salic · terephthalic · vocalic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEMIVOCALIC

semitonal · semitonally · semitone · semitonic · semitonically · semitrailer · semitranslucent · semitransparent · semitropic · semitropical · semitropics · semitruck · semiurban · semivitreous · semivocal · semivowel · semiweekly · semiwild · semiworks · semiyearly

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEMIVOCALIC

acromegalic · anencephalic · animalic · brachiocephalic · brachycephalic · cephalic · cytomegalic · diencephalic · encephalic · hydrocephalic · megacephalic · mesencephalic · pashalic · platycephalic · procephalic · santalic · sialic · telencephalic · Uralic · vandalic

Synonyms and antonyms of semivocalic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «semivocalic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEMIVOCALIC

Find out the translation of semivocalic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of semivocalic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «semivocalic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

semivocalic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

semivocalic
570 millions of speakers
en

English

semivocalic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

semivocalic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

semivocalic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

semivocalic
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

semivocalic
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

semivocalic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

semivocalic
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Semivokal
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

semivocalic
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

semivocalic
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

semivocalic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Semivocalic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

semivocalic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

semivocalic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

सेव्हवोकलिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

semivocalic
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

semivocalic
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

semivocalic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

semivocalic
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

semivocalic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

semivocalic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

semivocalic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

semivocalic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

semivocalic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of semivocalic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEMIVOCALIC»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about semivocalic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMIVOCALIC»

Discover the use of semivocalic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to semivocalic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Haspelmath, Martin; König, Ekkehard; Oesterreicher, Wulf; ...
Superimposed on the root as a separate morphological tier is a vocalic or semivocalic pattern, which together with the root forms the so-called stem, the surface form acquired by the root; the stem determines the part of speech to which the ...
Martin Haspelmath, 2001
2
Language typology and language universals: an international ...
Superimposed on the root as a separate morphological tier is a vocalic or semivocalic pattern, which together with the root forms the so-called stem, the surface form acquired by the root; the stem determines the part of speech to which the ...
Martin Haspelmath, 2001
3
Romanian Grammar
... back vowel mid rounded front vowel close rounded front vowel voiceless, asyllabic i semivocalic u semivocalic i semivocalic e semivocalic o voiceless bilabial stop voiced bilabial stop voiceless dentiealveolar stop voiced dentiealveolar stop ...
Mika Sarlin, 2013
4
A Course in Romance Linguistics: A synchronic view
In hiatus after another vowel, or word-initial, the allophones tend to set in with a quasi-semivocalic, homorganic constriction: [ba'uut] / baiit/ 'bu', ['ri- uury] /riury/ ' fleuves', ['uu-Sa] /iisa/ 'porte'. Careful speakers avoid this tendency altogether.
Frederick Browning Agard, 1984
5
Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond
Its syllabic canon is (C)(L, G)V. So the general phonotactic structure of the language imposes the semivocalic interpretation proposed by Glover, and the following statement of the syllabation rule (whatever the relative position on the sonority ...
Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller, 2007
6
The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum
Superimposed onthe rootasa separate morphological tier is avocalic or semivocalic pattern, whichtogether with the rootformsthe so-called stem, the surface form acquired by the root; the stem determines the functional class to which the word ...
Roger D. Woodard, 2008
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A Companion to the Latin Language
... was written -|CULUM but often pronounced [-|'klo] without the first [u]. The pronunciation of unstressed /i/ and le/ as semivocalic [i] when immediately next to another vowel, in words such as FORTIA [fortja], was probably also widespread.
James Clackson, 2011
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Vox Latina:
In the first century B.C. Nigidius Figulus (jGellius, x, 4, 4) evidently referred to the consonant sound, like that of the vowel, in terms of lip-protrusion, which can only indicate a bilabial, semivocalic articulation (in a discussion of the origins of ...
William Sidney Allen, 1989
9
Neuropsychology and the Hispanic Patient: A Clinical Handbook
The Spanish language spoken in Latin America has 17 consonantic, five vocalic, and two semivocalic phonemes (Table 6.1). The voiced lateral palatal ( phonologically, ; written as a double L, e.g., caballo, “horse”) is found only in some ...
Marcel O. Ponton, Jose Leon-Carrion, 2001
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Introduction to Attic Greek
An alternative form of-ῑων is -yων, with semivocalic iota instead ofvowel ῑ: this variant produces phonetic changes that eliminate the semivocalic iota. The superlative is a normal three-ending vowel-declension adjective. The accent on both ...
Donald J. Mastronarde, 2013
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Semivocalic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/semivocalic>. May 2024 ».
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