vocalism
nounEtymology From vocal + -ism.
1
Speaking or singing.
- The exciting vocalism of Leontyne Price1984 December 29, Charles Henry Fuller, “Music For The Holidays”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25:
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The vowel sounds used in a language.
3
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The vowels, sequence of vowels, or the quality peculiar to the vowels of a given word or group of words.
- All forms contain a base *θirr- or *θurr-. Types 1 and 2 [which contain *θirr] may have been influenced by θirri̯are 'to screech', suggesting that the forms with *θurr- preserve the original vocalism.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 256:
- Coordinate terms
- consonantism