vowelize

English

Etymology

vowel +‎ -ize

Verb

vowelize (third-person singular simple present vowelizes, present participle vowelizing, simple past and past participle vowelized)

1. (transitive) To give the quality, sound, or office of a vowel to.
2. (transitive) To insert a vowel or vowels into.
   • 2014, Imed Zitouni, Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages, page 419:

     One approach is to have experts in Arabic manually vowelize a small training set.

Related terms

• vowelization

See also

• consonantize

References

• “vowelize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.