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A vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant
Answer for the clue "A vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant ", 9 letters:
semivowel
Word definitions for semivowel in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In phonetics and phonology , a semivowel or glide is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. Examples of semivowels in English are the consonants y and w , in ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel 2 A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant [syn: glide ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semivowel \Sem"i*vow`el\, n. (Phon.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y. The sign or letter representing such a sound.
Usage examples of semivowel.
Now note the opposition of the consonants -- a rich nasal against a voiceless semivowel, a voiced stop against a voiceless.
F, though having a name beginning with a vowel, is numbered by the grammarians among the semivowels, yet has this quality of a mute, that it is commodiously sounded before a liquid, as flask, fry, freckle.