-
Similar terms include disyllable (and disyllabic; also
bisyllable and
bisyllabic) for a word of two syllables;
trisyllable (and trisyllabic) for a word...
- "While
monosyllabism generally trumps morphemicity—that is to say, a
bisyllabic morpheme is
nearly always written with two
characters rather than one—there...
- on'yomi of the characters. The most
common reading is kesa, a
native bisyllabic ****anese word that may be seen as a
single morpheme, or as a compound...
- CE); Zuo
Zhuan credited Confucius with
identifying the lin as such. The
bisyllabic form
qilin (麒麟 ~ 騏驎),
which carries the same
generic meaning as lin alone...
- affixes. The root is the
primary lexical unit of a word and is
usually bisyllabic, of the
shape CV(C)CV(C).
Affixes are "glued" onto
roots (which are either...
-
There is a rule of
vowel harmony: the non-open
vowels /i, e, u, o/ in
bisyllabic words must
agree in height, so
hidung ("nose") is
allowed but *hedung...
- on. In open
syllables particularly, the
pronunciation varies from the
bisyllabic [ɪːa],
through the
diphthong [ɪə], to the long
vowel [ɪː]. The
vowel /iː/...
- syllable. Three+
syllable stem
burum 'pig', stem: buruma-,
plural burumal Bisyllabic stem lag, KLY
laaga 'place, home, home island', stem: laga-,
plural lagal...
- From a
perch it "utters high-pitched, more
melodious notes, such as a
bisyllabic "rrekeet" or "keew"." However,
perched birds are
often silent. Flocks...
- vowel;
short word-initial
syllables are
thereby excluded. If a word is
bisyllabic and the only
heavy syllable is word-final, it gets
stressed anyway. In...
