shwa

English

Noun

shwa (plural shwas)

Alternative form of schwa
- 1979, Thomas Burrow, The problem of shwa in Sanskrit, page 33:
  This analysis arises only from the needs of the shwa theory, which does not allow short a to be the reduced grade of long a, and it has nothing else to recommend it.

Anagrams

-wash, Shaw, WASH, Wahs, Wash, Wash., haws, shaw, wahs, wash

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-kúa.

Verb

shwa

to die

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