köken: From Middle High German glīten, from Old High German glītan, from Proto-West Germanic *glīdan, from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleydʰ-. Compare Low German glieden, Dutch glijden, English glide.
a mora with a semivowel onglide, such as や (ya) or わ (wa) · a semivowel
köken: Compound of 半(はん) (han-, “semi-”) + 母音(ぼいん) (boin, “vowel”). First cited to a text from 1912 with the now-obsolete reading of hanboon. The reading appears to have shifted from hanboon to hanboin by 1922.
to sail (to move briskly and gracefully through the air) · to sail (to move briskly) · to glide (to move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly; to fly unpowered, as of an aircraft)
çekim: geçmiş liitänyt · şimdiki liitäisi · ulaç liitävä
köken: Possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną, either as an old borrowing (into Proto-Finnic *liitädäk) or a more recent one (such as from Swedish glida). Cognate with Karelian liiteä.
köken: From sēmi- + vōcālis. Calque of Ancient Greek ἡμῐ́φωνος (hēmĭ́phōnos). The substantivized noun is an ellipsis of littera sēmivōcālis f (“semivocal letter”).