köken: From mala- + patinig (“vowel”), literally “vowellike”, a calque of English semivowel. Coined by Lope K. Santos in the Balarilà ng Wikang Pambansá (Grammar of the National Language), published in 1939. This term was introduced to translate English semivowel.
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Etimoloji
Borrowed from English approximant, from Latin approximāns. Originally coined by British linguist and phonetician Peter Ladefoged in the 1960s.