| 单词 | quiescent sheva |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquiescent sheva 1. Hebrew Grammar. (a) The sign ְ placed under a consonant letter to express (what Jewish grammarians regard as) the absence of a following vowel sound. In certain positions the sheva (called quiescent sheva) has really no sound; but in others it is sounded as the neutral vowel /ə/, and is then called movable (or vocal) sheva. compound sheva: any of the signs ֳ, ֲ, ֱ, which represent the neutral vowel with a colouring of ŏ, ă, ĕ respectively. (b) The sound of ‘movable sheva’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonetic transcription > phonetic symbols sheva1582 quantity mark1860 breathing1864 stress mark1881 rounder1888 polygraph1893 shadda1896 modifier1899 length-mark1926 shift-sign1939 agma1957 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > types of > in Hebrew sheva1582 society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of > in Hebrew yod1534 sheva1582 dagesh1591 mater lectionis1659 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > types of > in Hebrew > sound of movable sheva sheva1582 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xvii. 113 Like to a silent Hebrew Scheua. 1818 P. S. Du Ponceau in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 241 A small vacant space, as it were, between the consonants, like the Sheva of the Hebrews. 1827 S. Lee Gram. Hebrew Lang. 19 On Sheva and its Substitutes. 1837 G. Phillips Elem. Syriac Gram. 3 When no vowel is expressed, then as in the Hebrew, a Sheva..will be implied and read accordingly. 1853 J. R. Wolf Pract. Hebrew Gram. 10 Hence, when Sheva is placed under such a consonant at the beginning of a syllable, it is sounded like a short e, and is called movable Sheva. 1853 J. R. Wolf Pract. Hebrew Gram. 10 When two Shevas stand in the middle of a word, the first is a resting, and the second a movable. 1914 J. E. McFadyen Davidson's Introd. Hebrew Gram. (ed. 19) 23 The place of shewa vocal, simple or composite, is under the first of two consonants that begin a syllable. 1939 J. Weingreen Pract. Gram. for Classical Hebrew 9 The shewa is not a vowel. The quick vowel-like sound is like the ‘e’ in ‘because’. 1965 Language 41 543 The shva is a masoretic grapheme. < as lemmas |
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