vowel harmony
noun Linguistics.
a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”
Origin of vowel harmony
First recorded in 1895–1900
Words nearby vowel harmony
voussoir,
vouvray,
vow,
vowel,
vowel gradation,
vowel harmony,
vowel mutation,
vowel point,
vowel rhyme,
vowel system,
vowelize
Example sentences from the Web for vowel harmony
Vowel-harmony is observed (vrok, “I await,” but verek, “I strike”).
Vowel-harmony and weakening of consonants occur as in Finnish.