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W
W 23d letter of the alphabet , in form a doubled u or v. It is the usual symbol of a voiced bilabial semivowel, as in the English wing. The same semivowel occurs as second member of the dipthongs au (as in house ), ō, and oo. In twice the w represents a voiceless semivowel, w... Read more
Y
Y 25th letter of the alphabet . It was a Latin importation of the eastern Greek upsilon (see U ), which was pronounced like ü; the Romans used it for Greek words. In English y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the... Read more

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W
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...is the usual symbol of a voiced bilabial semivowel, as in the English wing. The same semivowel occurs as second member of the dipthongs...oo. In twice the w represents a voiceless semivowel, which is heard also in some dialects that...
Y
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...pronounced like ü; the Romans used it for Greek words. In English y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the diphthongs ā, ē, ī, and oi. The modern...
Bengali
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Descended from ancient Sanskrit, Bengali contains forty-seven sounds: eleven vowels, twenty-five consonants, four semivowels, and seven "breath sounds" (including sibilants and aspirates). Its script, also Sanskrit-derived, contains fifty...
HIBERNO-ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...garden sound like ‘kyat’ and ‘gyarden’: initial /k/ and /g/ with a following semivowel /j/. (2) Such names as Hugh and Hughes sound as if they began with a ‘ky’. (3) Such words as...
Oriya
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...century inscriptions. It has thirteen vowels and thirty-six consonants (linguistically, spoken Oriya has six vowels, two semivowels, and twenty-nine consonants). History and Cultural Relations Orissa has been inhabited since prehistoric times, and...
Arabic Script
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...da-l, dha-l, ra-, za-y, and wa-w ). The alphabet is consonantal, consisting of twenty-eight consonants and semivowels. Other signs or diacritical marks indicate short vowels and other sound changes, but these do not typically appear in written...

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semivowel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English sem·i·vow·el / ˈsemēˌvouəl; ˈsemˌī- / • n. a speech sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, e.g., w or y .
semi-
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...L. sēmicirculus ), semicircular XV (late L. -circulāris ). semicolon XVII, semiquaver XVI, semitone XVII (cf. late L. sēmitonium ), semivowel XVI (L. sēmivocālis ).
vocalize
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...responses. ∎  [ intr. ] Mus. sing with several notes to one vowel. 2. Phonet. change (a consonant) to a semivowel or vowel. 3. write (a language such as Hebrew) with vowel points. DERIVATIVES: vo·cal·i·...

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A Shibboleth upon their tongues: early English /r/ revisited.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...point on the sonority scale between laterals and glides (semivowels), but, apart from the question whether such a definition...specification. (4) That puts them on a par with typical "semivowels" (or "glides") such as [j] and [w]. The latter are...
On palatalization and the origin of yod in Western Romance.(Report)
Magazine article from: Romance Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...weakening of the syllable-final velar to yod--a palatal semivowel or offglide--followed by palatalization of the dentalveolar...g'l/, and /gn/--the velar consonant weakened to semivowel yod and then palatalized the following dentalveolar consonant...
Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...two orthographies that R does not mention is the representation of semivowels. In Tagalog, unstressed high front and back vowels are always followed by the appropriate semivowel before a stressed vowel (e.g., Tag liyad, 'bent backwards...
Consecutive Roman numerals.(Kickshaws)
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 11/1/2004; ; 514 words ; ...ADVICE 509 RADIX 550 IDLE 551 IDLING 600 MADCAP 650 HEADCLOTH 900 ACME 901 ACMITE 1000 ME 1001 MINE 1002 GASTROCNEMII 1004 SEMIVOWEL 1005 DUUMVIR 1006 TRIUMVIR 1009 MIX 1050 DIMLY 1051 GREMLIN 1100 ARMCHAIR 1500 HUMDRUM 1501 HUMDINGER 2000 DUMMY 2001 COMMIT...
A purely simple promotion. (MACtac's Printing Products Division uses white sheets for promotion purposes; includes other graphic arts industry news) (Column)
Magazine article from: Graphic Arts Monthly; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...designs. I-Catching The ninth letter of our alphabet is a vowel that the Phoenicians and other ancient peoples labeled a semivowel ("y"), and portrayed as a backwards, or mirror-image, capital "f", with a tail pointing to the right. The Greeks...
A note on initial consonant clusters in Israeli Hebrew.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...incomplete. Next come nasals such as m, followed by liquids, such as l, where the obstruction is considerably weaker, then semivowels such as y, where the closure is minimal. In vowels, there is no obstruction at all, but there can be aperture narrowing...
Research reports from Yokohama City University provide new insights into speech.(Clinical report)
Newspaper article from: Cancer Weekly; 6/16/2009; 700+ words ; ...and their intermediates); and 7 articulatory modes (plosives, fricatives, affricatives, grids, nasals, vowels and semivowels). Low speech intelligibility scores were recorded at sites where flaps contribute directly to the pronunciation ill the...
Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...holds a number of inconsistencies. At the top he refers to the "half vowels" w and y, but calls them (more suitably) "semivowels" mid-page; at the top, p is listed among the consonants of Sumerian, but at the bottom it is said to occur in Akkadian...
ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/10/1991; 294 words ; ...printed English -- can be either vowel or consonant. Webster's New World Dictionary refers to it in certain usage as a "semivowel." Y perhaps most often appears as a vowel in the adverbial ending "-ly." Other words exemplifying its vowel form include...
Stuck in a rich man's world.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/25/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...of disapproval swinging back in the other direction. Not only was the woman wealthy enough to have had a purely ornamental semivowel grafted onto her Christian name, but she and her hubby (an investment banker with all the charisma of a bucket of chloroform...