An arrangement of vowels, for example in Semitic scripts where they are marked over the consonants.

(linguistic morphology, Indo-European studies) A vowel appended to the end of a root (with which it constitutes a stem), before the ending.

plural of dark vowel

(phonetics) Synonym of back vowel

(linguistics) In an abugida, the vowel sound (often a schwa in Brahmic scripts) appended by default to a consonant symbol lacking a vowel diacritic.

(phonetics) A vowel that is produced without nasalization.

plural of thematic vowel

(theology) One who maintains that the vowel points in Hebrew Scripture are part of the original text and thus of divine rather than human origin.

plural of vowelist

Resembling or characteristic of a vowel.