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schwas

schwas is the plural of schwa.

Meaning of schwa

Noun

schwa (plural schwas)

  1. An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
    • 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.1882, B. W. Wells, “The Ablaut in English”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, page 67
  2. The name of the Latin script letter Ə/ə.

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Questions about schwas

What is schwas the plural of?
Schwas is the plural of schwa.

Words near schwas in the dictionary

  1. Schwarzschild models
  2. Schwarzschild radii
  3. Schwarzschild radius
  4. Schwarzschild's method
  5. Schwarzwald
  6. schwas
  7. schwebeablaut
  8. schwebeablauted
  9. schwebeablauting
  10. schwebeablauts
  11. Schwecke

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