Word familynounsyllabarysyllabicationsyllabicitysyllabicssyllabificationsyllabismsyllableadjectivesyllabicsyllabicalsyllabledadverbsyllabicallyverbsyllabicatesyllabifysyllabize
syllable• In some of them it is the tone of every syllable which is contrastive and therefore important.• Virtually every syllable of Kerans' testimony, it turns out, is demonstrably false.• The assumption that each characterrepresents an independentmeaningfulsyllableleads to the conclusion that each character represents a monosyllabic word.• In a one-syllable utterance, the single syllable must have one of the five tones described in the last chapter.• There are quite a few situations where it is normal for the tonicsyllable to come earlier in the tone-unit.• The first thing to be done is to make more precise the role of the tonic syllable in the tone-unit.• When the stem has two syllables the stress is sometimes on the first, sometimes on the secondsyllable of the stem.• We will not consider words with stems of more than two syllables.
Originsyllable
(1300-1400)Old Frenchsillabe, from Latin, from Greeksyllabe, from syllambanein“to gather together”, from syn- ( → SYN-) + lambanein“to take”