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- New Latin · borrowed fromschwa secundum
- English todayschwa secundum
From the New Latin schwa secundum (literally “second schwa”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
schwa secundum
Today it means: An anaptyctic vowel inserted to break up illicit word-initial consonant clusters in Proto-Indo-European, particularly word-initial stop + stop + resonant sequences. Full definition →
New Latin schwa secundum