 | R. van der Pyl - 1893
...vowels, pronounced in like manner, as: ieu, oei. A syllable is a sound, either simple or compound, pronounced by a ^single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or a part of a word. A word of one syllable is named a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable;... | |
 | 1898
...an elementary sound or combination of elementary sounds uttered together, or at a single effort or impulse of the voice and constituting a word or part of a word. The name is also applied to the letter or letters standing for such an elementary sound. A letter is... | |
 | 1898
...an elementary sound or combination of elementary sounds uttered together, or at a single effort o"r impulse of the voice and constituting a word or part of a word. The name is also applied to the letter or letters standing for such an elementary iound. A letter is... | |
 | Francis Horace Teall - 1897 - 193 Seiten
...correspond to a syllable in the spoken language." Worcester : "A letter, or a combination of letters, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or a part of a word. . . . The most natural way of dividing words into syllables is to separate all the... | |
 | Roy Trewin Porte - 1923 - 283 Seiten
...SWASH CAPITAL. syllable — A single elementary sound, or a combination of such sounds uttered at one impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word. Sylph Initial — A large initial letter, similar to the Missal Initial, but of darker tone. See MISSAL... | |
 | Edward Lipiński - 2001 - 780 Seiten
...Lebanon. 15. SYLLABLE 24.1. The syllable is a sound or combination of sounds uttered together or at a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word. Authors generally assume that every Semitic syllable originally began with one consonant and one only.... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge - 1830
...constituent sounds. For example — the word man. Now the old grammarians have defined a syllable, ' as a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice.' And this is obviously a case, compound in its nature, and divisible into three simple, distinguishable... | |
 | Robert Hunter - 1897
...& Ital. lillaba.} 1. A sound, or a combination of sounds uttered together, or at a tingle effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or part of a word. A syllable may consist of a single vowel, as a In alas, e in ever, &c.; or of m vowel and a consonant,... | |
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A SYLLABLE is a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word: as, a, an, ant. Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into their syllables ; or of expressing a word by... 
