"schwi" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Alteration of vowel in the word schwa to more closely approximate the sound described.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "schwis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "schwi (plural schwis)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Phonemes",
          "orig": "en:Phonemes",
          "parents": [
            "Phonology",
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Phonetics",
          "orig": "en:Phonetics",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, The Initial Teaching Alphabet and the World of English: Proceedings:",
          "text": "Similarly the syllable \"day\" in \"Sunday\" is to be printed smaller than the rest of the type and in the higher position to show, first that the vowel is unstressed and second that the sounds needs to be \"schwi,\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Marsha Fabian, Mary Rhodes Hoover, Patterns for reading, page 141:",
          "text": "Accent Hint No. 1 -- if the first syllable contains a one-syllable prefix, the vowel in that syllable is unaccented and thus is probably a schwa /ə/ or schwi /i/.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 January, Steve Bett, “The number of phonemes in English”, in Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society:",
          "text": "Should the schwa [ago] and schwi [very] be represented with a unique phonogram?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An indeterminate near-close central unrounded vowel sound as the \"e\" in \"roses\" or the \"y\" in \"very\", depending on accent; sometimes represented as [[[i]]], [[[ɪ]]], or [[[ᵻ]]] in IPA."
      ],
      "id": "en-schwi-en-noun-g5axv737",
      "links": [
        [
          "phonetics",
          "phonetics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(phonetics) An indeterminate near-close central unrounded vowel sound as the \"e\" in \"roses\" or the \"y\" in \"very\", depending on accent; sometimes represented as [[[i]]], [[[ɪ]]], or [[[ᵻ]]] in IPA."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonetics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃwiː/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iː"
    }
  ],
  "word": "schwi"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Alteration of vowel in the word schwa to more closely approximate the sound described.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "schwis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "schwi (plural schwis)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/iː",
        "Rhymes:English/iː/1 syllable",
        "en:Phonemes",
        "en:Phonetics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, The Initial Teaching Alphabet and the World of English: Proceedings:",
          "text": "Similarly the syllable \"day\" in \"Sunday\" is to be printed smaller than the rest of the type and in the higher position to show, first that the vowel is unstressed and second that the sounds needs to be \"schwi,\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Marsha Fabian, Mary Rhodes Hoover, Patterns for reading, page 141:",
          "text": "Accent Hint No. 1 -- if the first syllable contains a one-syllable prefix, the vowel in that syllable is unaccented and thus is probably a schwa /ə/ or schwi /i/.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 January, Steve Bett, “The number of phonemes in English”, in Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society:",
          "text": "Should the schwa [ago] and schwi [very] be represented with a unique phonogram?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An indeterminate near-close central unrounded vowel sound as the \"e\" in \"roses\" or the \"y\" in \"very\", depending on accent; sometimes represented as [[[i]]], [[[ɪ]]], or [[[ᵻ]]] in IPA."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "phonetics",
          "phonetics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(phonetics) An indeterminate near-close central unrounded vowel sound as the \"e\" in \"roses\" or the \"y\" in \"very\", depending on accent; sometimes represented as [[[i]]], [[[ɪ]]], or [[[ᵻ]]] in IPA."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonetics",
        "phonology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃwiː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-schwi.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iː"
    }
  ],
  "word": "schwi"
}