half-long
English
Adjective
half-long (not comparable)
- Between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics (volume 2, page 60)
- In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.
- 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics (volume 2, page 60)
Noun
half-long (plural half-longs)
- A vowel that is between a short vowel and a long vowel in length.