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"ref": "1882, B. W. Wells, “The Ablaut in English”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, page 67",
"text": "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 form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI",
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"word": "a-schwa ⟨ɐ⟩"
},
{
"word": "e-schwa ⟨ə⟩"
},
{
"word": "i-schwa ⟨i⟩"
},
{
"word": "⟨ɪ⟩"
},
{
"word": "⟨ᵻ⟩"
},
{
"word": "schwa deletion"
},
{
"word": "schwaless"
},
{
"word": "schwa primum"
},
{
"word": "schwar ⟨ɚ⟩"
},
{
"word": "⟨ɝ⟩"
},
{
"word": "schwi ⟨i⟩"
}
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"(phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa."
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šwā",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "شْوَا"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šva",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "шва"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vocal neutra"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schwa"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhōngyāng yuányīn",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "中央元音"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "šva"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "sjwa"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "doffe e"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "ŝvao"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "švaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "e muet"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
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"word": "schwa"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
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"word": "Schwa"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "shva",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "שווא \\ שְׁוָא"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "śvā",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "श्वा"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "svá"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "pepet"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "schwa"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
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"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "シュワー"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "syuwa",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "슈와"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "واکهٔ بیرنگ"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "švâ",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "شوا"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "szwa"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
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"word": "schwa"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
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],
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
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"word": "xuá"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "chevá"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
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{
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"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
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"word": "poluglas"
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"word": "polglasnik"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"word": "шва"
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{
"code": "vro",
"lang": "Võro",
"sense": "indeterminate central vowel",
"word": "svaa"
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}
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from German Schwa or English schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (sh'va ,š’vā, “nought”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "mf",
"2": "#"
},
"expansion": "schwa m or f (invariable)",
"name": "it-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Italian 1-syllable words",
"Italian 2-syllable words",
"Italian countable nouns",
"Italian entries with incorrect language header",
"Italian feminine nouns",
"Italian indeclinable nouns",
"Italian lemmas",
"Italian masculine nouns",
"Italian nouns",
"Italian nouns with irregular gender",
"Italian nouns with multiple genders",
"Italian terms borrowed from English",
"Italian terms borrowed from German",
"Italian terms derived from English",
"Italian terms derived from German",
"Italian terms derived from Hebrew",
"Italian terms spelled with W",
"Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Italian/a",
"Rhymes:Italian/a/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:Italian/a/2 syllables",
"it:Phonetics"
],
"glosses": [
"schwa (mid-central vowel)"
],
"links": [
[
"phonetics",
"phonetics"
],
[
"schwa",
"schwa#Italian"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(phonetics) schwa (mid-central vowel)"
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"invariable",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonetics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃva/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃeˈva/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃəˈva/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃwa/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-a"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "scevà"
}
],
"word": "schwa"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "en",
"3": "schwa"
},
"expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English schwa",
"name": "ubor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English schwa.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "schwas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "schwa m (plural schwas)",
"name": "pt-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Portuguese 1-syllable words",
"Portuguese 2-syllable words",
"Portuguese countable nouns",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese nouns",
"Portuguese nouns with irregular gender",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from English",
"Portuguese terms derived from English",
"Portuguese terms spelled with W",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English",
"pt:Phonetics"
],
"glosses": [
"schwa (mid-central vowel)"
],
"links": [
[
"phonetics",
"phonetics"
],
[
"schwa",
"schwa#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(phonetics) schwa (mid-central vowel)"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"phonetics",
"phonology",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃuˈa/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃʊˈa]",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃwa/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃeˈva/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃwa/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃɨˈva/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃwa/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃɨˈva/",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃwa/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ʃɨˈba/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Portugal"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ʃɨˈβa]",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Portugal"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "xuá"
},
{
"word": "xevá"
},
{
"word": "chevá"
}
],
"word": "schwa"
}
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