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Semivowel

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.
  2. 2
    a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant wordnet
  3. 3
    A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.

Etymology

From semi- + vowel.

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