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VOCABULARY

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 vowel.

- A letter representing a consonant (such as b, c, d).

Vowel: a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal track, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, and which is a unit of the sound sistem of a language that forms the nucleus of a syllable. Contrasted with consonant.

- A letter representing a vowel sound, such as, a, e, i , o , u.

Diphthong: a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and towards another (as in coin, loud and side). Often contrasted with monophthong, triphthong.

- A digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat).

- A compound vowel character; a ligature (such as ae).

“The Oxford Dictionary of English” (revised edition)”.

OED

Philology: the branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, an relationships of languages or language families; the historical study of the phonology and morphology of languages; historical linguistics.

Etymology of “crow”: Forms: 1 crawe, 3-7 crowe, 4- crow, (6 krowe, croo(e, 6-7 croe); north. 3-6 crawe, 5- craw. [OE. cráwe f., corresp. to OS. krâia, MLG. krâge, krâe, krâ, LG. kraie, kreie, MDu. kraeye, Du. kraai, OHG. chrâwa, chrâja, chrâ, crâwa, crâ, MHG. kræe, krâwe, krâ, Ger. krähe; a WG. deriv. of the vb. crâwan, crâian to CROW, q.v.]

Translation into spanish: cuervo.