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Definition of: schwa
(shwä, shvä) noun
1. Phonet. A weak or obscure, central vowel sound occurring in most of the unstressed syllables in English speech. The sound, regardless of spelling, is that of the a in alone, the o in lemon, or the u in circus: written ə.
2. In Hebrew, the obscure vowel sound: written : and often transliterated by e. [<G <Hebrew shewa]
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