Crossword-Solution: SEMIVOWEL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Semivowel | n. | A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. |
| Semivowel | n. | The sign or letter representing such a sound. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SEMIVOWEL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LETTER representing sound that is part vowel and partly consonant | 1 answer |
| SOUND that is part vowel and partly consonent | 1 answer |
| a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SEMIVOWEL (4)
The Germans, who used it as the semivowel y, have perverted it from its original power less than the English have done, who sound it dzh.
Although we may call all these verbal bases roots, they stand to the first class in about the same relation as the triliteral Semitic roots to the more primitive biliteral.(268) In the third class we shall find that one of the two consonants is always a semivowel, nasal, or sibilant, these being more variable than the other consonants; and we can almost always point to one consonant as of later origin, and added to a biconsonantal root in order to render its meaning more special.
The diphthongal sound in _roi_ is the vowel _o_ modified, _plus_ the semivowel _w_ (not the vowel _u_ or _oo_) modified.
This spoken language is monosyllabic, and even the initial consonant often only a semivowel, while the whole word takes its significance from the _tone_ of the vowel; thus _lu_ in a low tone would have one meaning, LU in the tone of a musical third another meaning, and so on as the tone ascends through the octave.