Word.ws English Dictionary

pseudovowel

pseudovowel noun: synonym of semivowel.

Noun

pseudovowel (plural pseudovowels)

  1. Synonym of semivowel.
    • Due to the shape of the aspect infixes, ‹er› and ‹ol›, it is possible for the pseudovowels to occur immediately after their consonantal counterpart, as in *p‹ol›lltxe. When this happens in an unstressed syllable, the pseudovowel disappears, poltxe.2024 August 27, William S. Annis, “A Reference Grammar of Na’vi”, in Learn Na'vi, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025, page 14
    Synonyms:
    semivowel

Synonyms of pseudovowel

Forms of pseudovowel

pluralpseudovowels

Origin of pseudovowel

From pseudo- + vowel.

Questions about pseudovowel

What does pseudovowel mean?
Pseudovowel means synonym of semivowel.
What part of speech is pseudovowel?
Pseudovowel is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudovowel?
The plural of pseudovowel is pseudovowels.

Words near pseudovowel in the dictionary

  1. pseudoviruses
  2. pseudovitamin
  3. pseudovitamins
  4. pseudoviviparous
  5. pseudovivipary
  6. pseudovowel
  7. pseudovowels
  8. pseudovulva
  9. pseudovulvae
  10. pseudovulval
  11. pseudovulvas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudovowel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pseudovowel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pseudovowel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.