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Reduced syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable
a minor syllable, presyllable, or sesquisyllable, is a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minor syllable may
Minor_syllable
Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
Covers syllable structure in English. Line (poetry) List of the longest English words with one syllable Minor syllable Syllabary writing system Syllable (computing)
Syllable
Musical pitch reference system
do, where the syllables are always tied to specific pitches (e.g., "do" is always "C-natural") and 2) movable do, where the syllables are assigned to
Solfège
Austroasiatic language
initial minor syllable (in addition to, and independent of, initial clusters in the main syllable). When a minor syllable occurred, the main syllable's initial
Vietnamese_language
Austroasiatic language
stressed on the final syllable, hence many words conform to the typical Mon–Khmer pattern of a stressed syllable preceded by a minor syllable. The language has
Khmer_language
Tibeto-Burman language
syllable coda). /ə/ only occurs in a minor syllable, and is the only vowel that is permitted in a minor syllable (see below). The close vowels /i/ and
Burmese_language
Austroasiatic language spoken in Malaysia
There are not many single syllable words in use. A word is usually composed of the following parts: Major syllable Minor syllable Presyllable Kensiu uses
Kensiu_language
Sounds and pronunciation of the Burmese language
involving phonemic tone or register, a contrast between major and minor syllables, and strict limitations on consonant clusters. Burmese has 34 consonant
Burmese_phonology
Geolinguistic region of areal features
half"), consisting of a stressed syllable with approximately the above structure, preceded by an unstressed "minor" syllable consisting only of a consonant
Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
Mainland_Southeast_Asia_linguistic_area
Topics referred to by the same term
Semi-syllable may refer to: minor syllable, in phonology a glyph of a semi-syllabary, in orthography Syllable (disambiguation) Syllabic (disambiguation)
Semi-syllable
Subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family
CCV(C). Sesquisyllabic: consist of a major syllable with fully stressed vowel, preceded by a minor syllable Temiar ləpud 'caudal fin' Semai kʔɛːp [kɛʔɛːp]
Aslian_languages
Oldest attested stage of Chinese
languages. Some researchers believe that both these phenomena reflect lost minor syllables. Proto-Tibeto-Burman as reconstructed by Benedict and Matisoff lacks
Old_Chinese
Astronomical object that is neither a planet nor a comet
A minor planet, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively
Minor_planet
Language family concentrated in Southeast Asia
verbs consisting of an initial, unstressed, reduced minor syllable followed by a stressed, full syllable. This reduction of presyllables has led to a variety
Austroasiatic_languages
Representation of poetic meter
different lengths of each syllable, while in English poetry, they are based on the different levels of stress placed on each syllable. In both cases, the meter
Scansion
Sacred sound in Indian religions
ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a polysemous symbol representing a sacred sound, seed syllable, mantra, and invocation in Hinduism as well as in other Indian religions
Om
Metrical foot
the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful (f.)"). This terminology was
Iamb_(poetry)
Reconstructed ancestor of Min languages
suggests that the additional contrasts may reflect consonant clusters or minor syllables. Fujian The Min homeland consists of most of the province of Fujian
Proto-Min
Austroasiatic language spoken in Malaysia
copying from just the edges of the reduplicant's base, thus forming a minor syllable. Examples of words in Semai include the following: Asli (2017), a film
Semai_language
impeded if the lateral was preceded by an unspecified consonant or minor syllable. He reconstructs 林 as *Cə-lim, yielding MC lim. Furthermore, MC /l/
Historical_Chinese_phonology
Table of all sounds in Standard Chinese
pinyin table is a complete listing of all Hanyu Pinyin syllables used in Standard Chinese. Each syllable in a cell is composed of an initial (columns) and
Pinyin_table
Numerals used in the Khmer language
necessarily restricted to them, as the pattern also follows Khmer's minor syllable pattern. The modern Khmer numbers from 30 to 90 are as follows: The
Khmer_numerals
Systems associating syllables to musical notes
Solmization is a mnemonic system in which a distinct syllable is attributed to each note of a musical scale. Various forms of solmization are in use and
Solmization
unstressed prefix *Cə- (a minor syllable), which conditioned syllabic tenseness contrasting with laxness in type B syllables. a length distinction of the
Old_Chinese_phonology
System of phonetic notation
boundary markers: ⟨.⟩ for a syllable break, ⟨|⟩ for a minor prosodic break and ⟨‖⟩ for a major prosodic break. The tags 'minor' and 'major' are intentionally
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Reconstructed ancestor of the Tai languages
sesquisyllabic stage (with a main monosyllable and optional preceding minor syllable). The subsequent reduction to monosyllables occurred independently in
Proto-Tai_language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Tibeto-Burman languages
in syllable structure have been attested in Tibeto-Burman languages (Matisoff 2003:155). (Note: Sesquisyllable, otherwise known as a minor syllable, is
Proto-Tibeto-Burman_language
Writing system from the Brahmic family of scripts
used when the vowel occurs at the beginning of a word or syllable, or is a complete syllable in itself (example: a, u, o). The diacritic form is added
Telugu_script
Karenic language
last syllable. Pa'O syllables follow a C(C)(C)Vᵀ or C(C)Vᵀ(C) structure and can be classed into pre-syllables, major syllables and minor syllables. The
Pa'O_language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Austroasiatic languages
particularly nominal affixes (otherwise known as sesquisyllables or minor syllable prefixes). Blench does not make any definitive conclusions about how
Proto-Austroasiatic_language
Writing systems for indigenous North American languages
India; in Devanagari, each letter stands for a syllable, and is modified to represent the vowel of that syllable. Such a system, now called an abugida, would
Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics
Language that uses pitch changes for accent
pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting
Pitch-accent_language
Chamic language of Vietnam and Cambodia
second syllable. Additionally, Jarai has further evolved in the pattern of Mon–Khmer, losing almost all vowel distinction in the initial minor syllable. While
Jarai_language
combinations, like single syllables, were written with single characters and also counted as a single foot in verse. Rarely, the minor syllables received a separate
Reconstructions of Old Chinese
Reconstructions_of_Old_Chinese
Aspect of Vedic studies
aesthetics. Sanskrit metres include those based on a fixed number of syllables per verse, and those based on a fixed number of morae per verse. Extant
Sanskrit_prosody
Mass composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna in 1791
The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Mozart composed part of the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791,
Requiem_(Mozart)
Abugida script for languages spoken in Thailand
contrasts between voiced and unvoiced consonants at the beginning of a syllable (e.g. z vs. s). At a later time, the voicing distinction disappeared, but
Thai_script
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
words. In simple terms, a particular tone is the movement of a word or syllable's musical pitch: whether held steady, or sliding upwards or downwards, or
Tone_(linguistics)
Branch of the Indo-European language family
as whether the syllable was medial or final, whether the syllable was open or closed and (in some cases) whether the preceding syllable was light or heavy)
Germanic_languages
Musical notation for group singing
from D minor to D major). As noted above, the syllables of shape-note systems greatly antedate the shapes. The practice of singing music to syllables designating
Shape_note
Phonetic phenomenon in Uralic languages
allophonic alternation between open and closed syllables, but has become grammaticalised due to changes in the syllable structure of the languages affected. The
Consonant_gradation
feature in all syllables, except in accented syllables and syllables that immediately followed the accent. The length of these syllables was retained.
History_of_Proto-Slavic
1766 keyboard piece by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sauer offered a speculation: "The word 'Solfeggio' means to apply the syllable names to the tones of the scale. This composition, employing, as it does
Solfeggietto
Extinct language isolate of the Mississippi Valley
of the high melody, the last syllable is about a minor third higher pitch than the second-last syllable. The first syllable with stress is usually a major
Tunica_language
Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable by J. C. Gorham, published by A. L. Burt of New York, part of Burt's Series of One Syllable Books, which was "selected
Works based on Alice in Wonderland
Works_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland
Japanese syllabary
Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each syllable (strictly mora) in the Japanese language is represented by
Katakana
System of musical notation
the usual staff notation is replaced with anglicized solfège syllables (e.g. the syllable la for the submediant) or their abbreviations (l for la). "Do"
Tonic_sol-fa
Branch of the Indo-European language family
innovation. Hirt's law: retraction of the PIE accent to the preceding syllable, if that syllable ended in a laryngeal (*h₁, *h₂, *h₃, see Laryngeal theory). A
Balto-Slavic_languages
Austroasiatic languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent
basis of shared lexical innovations and the *s-:*t- correspondence in minor syllables. Under this hypothesis, Munda formed part of the Northern group together
Munda_languages
Accent in Lithuanian phonology
In Lithuanian phonology, stressed heavy syllables are pronounced in one of two prosodically distinct ways. One way is known as the acute or falling accent:
Lithuanian_accentuation
Segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
tonal patterns. Prosodic units occur at a hierarchy of levels, from the syllable, the metrical foot and phonological word to the intonational unit (IU)
Prosodic_unit
2011 video game
Iridescent Dream (1904) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable (1905) New Adventures of Alice (1917) Alice in Orchestralia (1925) Alice
Alice:_Madness_Returns
1824 symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It
Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)
Sanskrit verse in Anustubh metre
verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita
Shloka
Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar and Bangladesh
as a realization of the consonant sequence /ŋj/. [ə] only occurs in minor syllables or as a result of vowel reduction of /a/. Sak uses a decimal-based
Sak_language
Kuki-Chin language spoken in Bangladesh and Burma
Linguistics. Herr, Kristen. 2011. The Phonological Interpretation of Minor Syllables, Applied to Lemi Chin. Master’s thesis. Lung, K Nu San. 2017. Vitality
Khumi_language
Official language of the country of Georgia
initial syllable of a word. Georgian vowels in non-initial syllables are pronounced with a shorter duration compared to vowels in initial syllables. Long
Georgian_language
1964 song by the Beatles
McCartney adds to the rhyme scheme by combining a single, two-syllable word with two one-syllable words (i.e. "Look what you're doing, I'm feeling blue and
What_You're_Doing
Linguistic feature
final syllable (oxytone, e.g. señor, ciudad), on the penultimate syllable (paroxytone, e.g. señora, nosotros), or on the antepenultimate syllable (proparoxytone
Stress_in_Spanish
Hindu mantra
Ultimate Reality, Narayana'), also referred to as the Ashtakshara (eight syllables), and the Narayana Mantra, is among the most popular mantras of Hinduism
Om_Namo_Narayanaya
Swedish linguist
9: 5–8. Svantesson, Jan-Olof and Anastasia Mukhanova Karlsson 2004. 'Minor syllable tones in Kammu'. I Bernard Bel and Isabelle Marlien (ed.), Proceedings
Jan-Olof_Svantesson
stress on the first syllable, as in Jennifer, most long nouns tend to have stress on the antepenultimate (third-from-last) syllable, as in comMUnicate
English_prosody
Script of the Brahmic family
in use by East Asian Buddhists, especially for writing mantras, seed syllables, and dharanis. The word Siddhaṃ means "accomplished", "completed" or "perfected"
Siddhaṃ_script
Sounds and pronunciation of Malay including Indonesian
closed syllable, i.e. a syllable that ends with a consonant. E.g. a + i in kain 'cloth' are pronounced separately [ka.en] ~ [ka.ɪn], because the syllable ends
Malay_phonology
Indigenous American Huitoto language
the first or second syllable in a word with more than two syllables. This accent does not move when a suffix is added. The syllables of bisyllabic roots
Minica_Huitoto_language
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of syllables, and is usually two, three, or four syllables in length. The most common feet in English are
Metrical_foot
Phonology of the Cantonese language
characters. Cantonese has a relatively simple syllable structure when compared to other languages. A Cantonese syllable contains one tone-carrying vowel with
Cantonese_phonology
System of mudras
consist of nine syllables. The mantras are referred to as kuji (Japanese: 九字), which literally translates as nine characters. The syllables used in kuji
Kuji-in
predictable. It falls on the penultimate syllable when that is "heavy", and on the antepenultimate syllable when the penult is "light". In Greek, stress
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
Traditional_English_pronunciation_of_Latin
Basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland"
Tillie." The name Liddell was pronounced with the accent on the first syllable and would sound like "little" as spoken with the "T" sound softened. Also
Alice_Liddell
Upcoming 2026 film
Iridescent Dream (1904) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable (1905) New Adventures of Alice (1917) Alice in Orchestralia (1925) Alice
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland
Descendants:_Wicked_Wonderland
Dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt
Makemake (minor-planet number 136472) is a dwarf planet orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper belt, a disc of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the
Makemake
Creole language in the Dutch Caribbean
last) syllable: buriku ("donkey"). When a noun ends in a consonant, the stress is placed upon the last syllable: hospital. When a verb has two syllables, the
Papiamento
Poetic line of eleven syllables
hendecasyllable (as an adjective, hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables. The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which
Hendecasyllable
Hindu Vaishnava scripture
formula. The Narayana Upanishad posits, "Om Namo Narayanaya", an eight-syllabled mantra, as a means of reaching salvation, which is communion with Vishnu
Narayana_Upanishad
Topics referred to by the same term
be Albert Medal for Lifesaving, post-nominal AM Am (cuneiform), written syllable Member of the Order of Australia, post-nominal letters which can be used
AM
Most populous city in the United States
characterized as non-rhotic so that the sound [ɹ] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant, therefore the pronunciation of the city
New_York_City
Ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt
the name "Quaoar" is pronounced with three syllables, and Trujillo's website on Quaoar gives a three-syllable pronunciation, /ˈkwɑːoʊ(w)ɑːr/, as an approximation
Quaoar
Natural number
the world's major religions. Twelve is the largest number with a single-syllable name in English. Early Germanic numbers have been theorized to have been
12_(number)
Concept in evolutionary biology
Iridescent Dream (1904) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable (1905) New Adventures of Alice (1917) Alice in Orchestralia (1925) Alice
Red_Queen_hypothesis
Austroasiatic language spoken in Laos and Thailand
sonorant. /r̥/ is only attested in minor syllables. Mlabri has a different set of consonants which occur at the ends of syllables, including aspirated sonorants
Mlabri_language
American comedy musician (born 1959)
Tech, created an algorithm that generates lyrics to match the rhyme and syllable schemes of preexisting songs. The algorithm was called "Weird A.I. Yankovic"
"Weird_Al"_Yankovic
in Joshua 13:4. Other translations render the name Mearah. The initial syllable me- here is commonly interpreted as a preposition, yielding the translation
List_of_minor_biblical_places
Writing conventions for the Danish language
and without the accent. An accent on ⟨e⟩ can be used to mark a stressed syllable in one of a pair of homographs that have different stresses, for example
Danish_orthography
Nursery rhyme character
Iridescent Dream (1904) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Retold in Words of One Syllable (1905) New Adventures of Alice (1917) Alice in Orchestralia (1925) Alice
Humpty_Dumpty
Mantra of the Vedic tradition
syllable oṃ, followed by the three Vyahrtis and the Gayatri verse. Whereas in principle the gāyatrī mantra specifies three pādas of eight syllables each
Gayatri_Mantra
Name list
People with the single-syllable name Seon include: Seon of Balhae (fl. 818–830), 10th King of Balhae Kim Seon (fl. 10th century), minor lord of the early Goryeo
Seon_(Korean_name)
Main-belt asteroid
main-belt asteroid. Thalia has been studied by radar. Stressed on the second syllable. Webster, Noah (1884). A Practical Dictionary of the English Language.
23_Thalia
Official language of Mongolia
proposes that stress falls on the rightmost heavy syllable unless this syllable is word-final: A "heavy syllable" is defined as one that is at least the length
Mongolian_language
minor role in foreign borrowings; for example, [tu] is often written as <to> + reduced-size <u>, and [ti] as <te> + reduced-size <i>. These syllables
List_of_writing_systems
Minimalist language by Sonja Lang
The first syllable of a word follows the form (C)V(N), i.e. an optional consonant, a vowel, and an optional final nasal. Subsequent syllables follow the
Toki_Pona
Constructed language
characteristics: the initial syllable, word length, and whether it has a pair of repeated syllables. Words that are one and two syllables long are used for pronouns
Solresol
Characters in the books by Lewis Carroll
This is a list of the minor characters in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
List of minor characters in the Alice series
List_of_minor_characters_in_the_Alice_series
Video game franchise
taken down by Kearsley at Disney's request, though it was later reposted by minor channels. On May 27, 2020, it was reported that a TV series based on the
Kingdom_Hearts
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
even-numbered syllable). Many Romance languages use a scheme that is somewhat similar but where the position of only one particular stressed syllable (e.g. the
Metre_(poetry)
Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language
(abugida), a writing system that is partially "alphabetic" and partially syllable-based. The modern Malayalam alphabet has 15 vowel letters, 42 consonant
Malayalam_script
Romance language derived from Old Spanish
little eyes, [...] There is a tendency to drop [s] at the end of a word or syllable, as in Andalusian Spanish and many other Spanish dialects in Spain and
Judaeo-Spanish
1871 children's novel by Lewis Carroll
the characters play out in the story. For other characters, see List of minor characters in Through the Looking-Glass. Alice progresses across a chessboard-like
Through_the_Looking-Glass
Korean language romanization system
either directly transferred to the syllabic initial position of the next syllable (i.e. replacing the ㅇ), Examples: 독일 [도길] Togil, 낟알 [나달] nadal, 촬영 [촤령]
McCune–Reischauer
in Sino-Korean, but it was very rarely used. Its use was limited to the syllable ᅘᅧ ([xjə]; lit. 'pull'). Within several decades of the promulgation, it
Obsolete_Hangul_jamo
MINOR SYLLABLE
MINOR SYLLABLE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Miner.German : nickname, meaning ‘small(er)’, from Latin minor ‘less’, ‘smaller’.French : nickname meaning ‘younger’, from the same word as in 2.
Girl/Female
Indian
Minor deity
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained. Possibly a reduced form of Senior.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Farsi, Iranian, Muslim, Parsi
Heaven; Paradise
Boy/Male
Greek Latin
Son of Zeus.
Female
Japanese
(里) Japanese unisex name MINORI means "truth."
Boy/Male
Japanese
Bear fruit.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Fish which moves with ease everywhere bestowing Love and peace over her surroundings getting pride to all, Paradise, A gem, Precious stone
Male
Japanese
(里) Japanese name MINORU means "truth."
Girl/Female
Arabic
Small; Minor
Female
Persian/Iranian
(مینو) Persian name MINOO means "heaven, paradise."
Girl/Female
Tamil
Minor deity
Girl/Female
Arabic
Small; Minor
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Light; Shining
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Beautiful; Intelligent
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Minor Diety; Minor Goddess
Girl/Female
Indian
Fish which moves with ease everywhere bestowing Love and peace over her surroundings getting pride to all, Paradise, A gem, Precious stone
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Milner.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
Surname or Lastname
Jewish (Israeli)
Jewish (Israeli) : modern Hebrew name meaning ‘loom’.English : unexplained.
MINOR SYLLABLE
MINOR SYLLABLE
Girl/Female
Danish, French, German, Norse, Swedish, Teutonic
Ready for Battle; Dark; Noble; Armor-wearing Fighting Maid; Battle Armour; Dark Warrior
Boy/Male
Italian Spanish Greek Latin
Giant.
Female
Hebrew
 Variant spelling of Hebrew Shir-Lee, SHIRLEE means "song is mine." Compare with another form of Shirlee.
Girl/Female
Christian, English, Irish
Shining; Sea Bright
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Having Green Eyes
Boy/Male
Indian, Kannada, Oriya
Greater; More; Lots
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
King of Prowess
Male
Swedish
Swedish variant spelling of Scandinavian Vilfred, VILFRID means "desires peace."
Boy/Male
Muslim
A cowherd, Name of dynasty
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Short Name of Mutamid
MINOR SYLLABLE
MINOR SYLLABLE
MINOR SYLLABLE
MINOR SYLLABLE
MINOR SYLLABLE
a.
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
a.
Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
n.
A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).
n.
A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
a.
Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.
n.
Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
n.
A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.
n.
A miner.
n.
The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
n.
A minor third, or interval of three semitones.
n.
The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.
n.
See Minnow.
n.
The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
n.
A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
a.
Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.
n.
The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
n.
A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
n.
The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
n.
A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
n.
The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor).