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Date: 1800-1900
Language: German
Origin: Hebrew shewa

schwa

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics, Letters and punctuation
schwa [countable] technical
1SL a vowel typically heard in parts of a word that are spoken without stress1 (4), such as the 'a' in 'about'
2 the sign (ə), used to represent the vowel schwa
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