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Substantiivi
- (linguistics) A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
- The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
- A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
Verbi
- (transitive, poetic) To utter in syllables.
Esimerkit
- I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
- Before any syllable of the law of God was written.
- Who dare speak / One syllable against him?
- Aery tongues that syllable men's names — Milton.
- Having carefully perused the column of "houses to let," and the column of "dogs lost," and then the two columns of "wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, (The Angel of the Odd - Edgar Allan Poe)
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