Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To be reduced to schwa.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA. · The name of the Latin script letter Ə/ə.
Etymology tree Classical Syriac ܫܘܳܝܳܐ (š'waya)bor. Hebrew שווא (š’wā)lbor. German Schwabor. English schwa 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.
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