schwaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from German Schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (shva, šəwā, “(mark indicating reduction or absence of a vowel)”), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫ̈ܘܰܝܳܐ (š'wayyā, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence. Doublet of shva.

別の表記

• shwa
• schwə (rare)

発音

• enPR: shwä, IPA: /ʃwɑ/
• (humorous) IPA: /ʃwə/, /ʃwʌ/
• 韻: -ɑː, -ʌ

名詞

schwa (plural schwas)

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

   Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel

   Hyponym: schwar

   Coordinate terms: a-schwa, e-schwa, schwar, schwi, schwu

   • 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:

     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 name of the Latin-script letter Ə/ə.

動詞

schwa (third-person singular simple present schwas, present participle schwaing, simple past and past participle schwaed)

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

派生語

Further reading

• schwa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

名詞

schwa (plural schwas)

1. Alternative form of shva.

アナグラム

• chaws