Used in phonology in terms denoting nasal sounds, as naso-guttural, naso-spirital, naso-vocal, etc. Obsolete.

Phonetics. The neutral vowel-sound; esp. in comparative grammar, the obscure vowel resulting (in primitive Indogermanic) from an original ā, ē, or ō…

a vowel which connects a suffix or affix to the root or stem of a word.

shut sound, shut vowel = close, adj. 1d. Also used to designate a short vowel of the quality used in closed syllables. Obsolete.

each of a series of vowel sounds used as standard reference points to assist in the description and classification of vowel sounds in any language.

attributive, as u-sound, u-vowel.

a central, usually unstressed, vowel sound produced with the tongue slack and the lips relaxed and having indefinite quality, esp. schwa.

The letter, and the sound it represents.

Phonetics. A wide vowel. Cf. wide, adj. 7b. Now rare.

Of a vowel: Connective. Also elliptical as n.

indeterminate sentence, a sentence in a criminal case which leaves the prisoner's release dependent on his conduct and on the probability of his…

attributive, as u-sound, u-vowel.

An orinasal vowel (see sense A.). rare.

A pharyngeal speech sound; = pharyngeal, n. 2.

a vowel which cannot form a syllable by itself.

The central vowel sound/ə/, typically occurring in weakly stressed syllables, as in the final syllable of ‘sofa’ and the first syllable of ‘along’; =…

a glide or weak vowel; = schwa, n.

Phonetics. Designating a weakly articulated speech sound. murmured vowel n. = murmur vowel n. at murmur, n. compounds; (also) a vowel sound…