I mean may be either a vowel, a semivowel, or a mute. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics] Reference
A semivowel that which with such impact has an audible sound, as S and R. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics] Reference
Priscian, mentioning several peculiarities of this semivowel, thus speaks of this one. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference
You overlooked what I already clearly wrote: "avoidance of word-initial semivowel /j/.". From Wordnik.com. [Prefixes in Minoan] Reference
And sometimes the speaker pronounces ‘yi’ with a discernible initial semivowel sound. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Yi] Reference
The YA-/A- alternation in Minoan is merely a reflection of the phonotactically motivated avoidance of word-initial semivowel /j/. From Wordnik.com. [Prefixes in Minoan] Reference
Associated with the vowel of each family are a diphthong and semivowel, for example e and ya with i, and all of these have lengthened forms, such as â, ai and yâ. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 3 External Kalachakra] Reference
But continuing with the third possibility of preaspiration… on the basis of this single example, there are a number of possible explanations for the distribution, for example after vowels and semivowel. From Wordnik.com. [Linear A treatment of consonant clusters] Reference
I'm not a native speaker and I don't have a dictionary to hand so there's a good chance I'm mistaken, but is the last sound of 'acceuil' and 'seuil' and 'deuil' a kind of a semivowel that has its own IPA representation?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: UN SIT FASIL A LIR.] Reference
Both in the LXX and in the N.T. semivowel verbs, i.e. those with l. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
A semivowel, one having an audible sound by the addition of another Letter; e.g. S and R. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
Letter having a sound (a vowel or semivowel); for GR, without an A, is just as much a Syllable as GRA, with an A. From Wordnik.com. [Poetics. English] Reference
Aorist in - a.a. Another inflexional form for the frequency of which the classical student will hardly be prepared is the aorist in - a in other than semivowel verbs. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
In Attic Greek semivowel verbs with a in their stem lengthen the a into e in forming the 1st aorist (as phan -, ephena), except after i or r, when they lengthen into a (as mian -, emiana, peran -, eperana). From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of Septuagint Greek] Reference
"You overlooked what I already clearly wrote: "avoidance of word-initial semivowel /j/.". From Wordnik.com. [Prefixes in Minoan] Reference
That is, the initial /h-/ would have to be unheard by the Etruscans (which is indeed possible in light of the Greek borrowing Aita "Hades") and there would have to be an omission of the remaining initial semivowel /j-/ as would be typical of Etruscan (and Aegean) phonotactics. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan araχ: a falcon, a hawk, both?] Reference
A semivowel is, at the last squeak. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850] Reference
5. semivowel. From Wordnik.com. [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference
At last, when the veins of the summer were hot and swollen, and the juices of all the poison-plants and the blood of all the creatures that feed upon them had grown thick and strong, -- about the time when the second mowing was in hand, and the brown, wet-faced men were following up the scythes as they chased the falling waves of grass, (falling as the waves fall on sickle-curved beaches; the foam-flowers dropping as the grass-flowers drop, -- with sharp semivowel consonantal sounds, -- frsh, -- for that is the way the sea talks, and leaves all pure vowel-sounds for the winds to breathe over it, and all mutes to the unyielding earth,) -- about this time of over-ripe midsummer, the life of. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
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