vowelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.

発音

• enPR: vouʹəl, IPA: /ˈvaʊ.əl/
• (also) enPR: voul, IPA: /vaʊl/
• 韻: -aʊəl, -aʊl

名詞

vowel (plural vowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.

   In Welsh, the w usually represents a vowel.

2. (orthography) A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (rarely), y (sometimes).

   Facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.

使用する際の注意点

• Apart from a and possibly o, all vowel letters may also represent consonants (semivowels) in English. For example, y in yes, i in Spaniard, u in persuade, and e righteous (when pronounced without Yod coalescence).

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “sound”): consonant
• (antonym(s) of “letter”): consonant

上位語

• (sound): sonorant, resonant

派生語

関連する語

• vocalic
• consonant
• liquid

派生した語

• → Hawaiian: woela
• → Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì

参考

• vocalization

Placing of an element:

• prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
• intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
• postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

• front, central, back
• rounded, unrounded
• close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

動詞

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle (US) voweling or (UK) vowelling, simple past and past participle (US) voweled or (UK) vowelled)

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
   • 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 52:

     However it should be vowelled – perhaps ‘Almaqah’ – his name seems to be composed of ‘Il’, the general name of the paramount Semitic deity […] , plus another element that is possibly from the Sabaic verb wqh, ‘to command’ […] .

同意語

• vowelize
• vocalize

アナグラム

• wolve

語源

Borrowed from Old French vouel, vouele, variants of voyeul, from Latin vōcālis. Compare voys.

発音

• IPA: /vuːˈɛːl/, /vuːˈɛl/, /ˈvuːɛl/

名詞

vowel (plural voweles)

1. A vowel (sound formed with an unblocked oral cavity or a letter representing it).

   Coordinate term: consonaunt

派生した語

• English: vowel
• Middle Scots: voual
  • Scots: vouel, voul

参照

• “vǒuel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.