SCHWA


Meaning of SCHWA in English

[ ʃwα: ]

■ noun Phonetics the unstressed central vowel (as in a mom e nt a go), represented by the symbol ə in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Origin

C19: from Ger., from Heb. šěwā' .

Concise Oxford English vocab.      Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка.