schwaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• shwa

発音

• enPR: shwä, IPA^(key): /ʃwɑ/
  • (humorous) IPA^(key): /ʃwə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː, -ə

名詞

schwa (複数形 schwas)

1. (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.

   Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel

   Coordinate terms: a-schwa, schwi

   Hyponym: schwar

   • 1882, B. W. Wells, “The Ablaut in English”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, page 67:

     The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.

   • 2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller; Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.10170S0954394506060066:

     However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style […]

2. The character ə.

動詞

schwa (三人称単数 現在形 schwas, 現在分詞 schwaing, 過去形および過去分詞形 schwaed)

1. (phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa.

派生語

Further reading

• schwa on Wikipedia.

名詞

schwa (複数形 schwas)

1. Alternative form of shva

アナグラム

• chaws