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schwi en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Blend of schwa + i. Alteration of vowel in the word schwa to more closely approximate the sound described.

Meanings

  1. An indeterminate near-close central unrounded vowel sound, such as the "e" in "roses" or the "y" in "very", depending on the accent; sometimes represented as [[[ɨ]]] in IPA or [[[ᵻ]]] in para-IPA.
    • Similarly the syllable "day" in "Sunday" is to be printed smaller than the rest of the type and in the higher position to show, first that the vowel is unstressed and second that the sounds needs to be "schwi," 1966, Albert J. Mazurkiewicz, The Initial Teaching Alphabet and the World of English: Proceedings:
    • Should the schwa [ago] and schwi [very] be represented with a unique phonogram? 2002 January, Steve Bett, “The number of phonemes in English”, in Journal of the Simplified Spelling Society:
    • Accent Hint No. 1 -- if the first syllable contains a one-syllable prefix, the vowel in that syllable is unaccented and thus is probably a schwa /ə/ or schwi /i/. 1972, Marsha Fabian, Mary Rhodes Hoover, Patterns for reading, page 141:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
schwis Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

a-schwa · schwa · schwar · schwu

wikipedia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English