Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word euryvocalic.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
mollusque commented on the word euryvocalic
Containing each of the six vowels once (adj.); a word that contains each of the six vowels once (noun).
"Euryvocalic" is coined here to refer to these words; "eury-" meaning "broad", referring to the broad range of vowels. Euryvocalics are a subset of panvocalics (which can have repeated vowels) and of euvocalics (which need not have a "y").
February 8, 2008
sionnach commented on the word euryvocalic
So, mollusque, can you remember when your lifelong interest in vowels began. Was there a specific precipitating incident in your childhood, perhaps?
February 8, 2008
mollusque commented on the word euryvocalic
Probably in seventh grade, when I was twelve. I had an English teacher, Miss Lee, who taught a vocabulary word every day. The word on the first day of class was accessible. I was hooked immediately. Facetious was one of our words, and she must have told us that it had the vowels in alphabetical order. My fascination with words started then, but I didn't focus on panvocalics as such until many years later.
February 8, 2008
mollusque commented on the word euryvocalic
Turns out that Eric Chaikin beat me to this coinage. He used euryvocalic on November 7, 2007.
December 27, 2008