Definitions.
CONSONANT: a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. Contrasted with a vowel. · a letter representing a consonant.
VOWEL: a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction , and which is a unit of the sound system of a language that forms the nucleus of a sylable.
DIPHTHONG: a sound formed by the combination of two voweles in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin, loud, and side.) Often constrasted with monophthong, triphthong. · a digraph representing the sound . . .
FROM THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
The pronunciation of “kestrel”: (
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The main definition of “philology” in English: Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.
The etymology of “crow” and look for the translation into Spanish and paste it in too: (
Translation into Spanish: cuervo