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Vinony

semivowel

noun

  1. transitional phoneme produced like a vowel but used like a syllable boundary
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English vowel English semivowel From semi- + vowel.

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