What word has w for a vowel?

Answer 1

No, it isn't.

no

actually I seem to recall a geological term of Scandinavian derivation GWM refering to a glacial lake.

You may be thinking of an acronym. GWM can stand for Ground Water Management or Monitoring. You may be right, but a hasty search doesn't support it.

But the word cwm (pronounced coom to rhyme with loom) has been imported from Welsh to mean a hollow at the head of a mountain valley. In this case the w is a vowel.

Answer 2

There is a Welsh musical instrument called the "crwth". Some say it should not be used as a word containing w as a vowel because it is not an English word, but it appears in every English dictionary I have ever checked.

Answer 3

There are two words in English that use w alone as a vowel. They were brought into English in the 1830s to ease the suffering due to shortfalls in production in the vowel mines of Scrabbleton, PA.

Cwm ("koom")and crwth ("krooth") are Welsh in origin.

A cwm is a valley, or more specifically, a steep hollow at the upper end of a mountain valley.

A crwth is a Welsh lyre about the size of a violin.

Some people argue that when placed next to a regular vowel, the w forms a dipthong that changes the pronunciation of the vowel sound. Examples of this include few and jaw.

Answer 4

no. its only a e i o u and SOMETIMES y. sorry [: Actually, w can be a vowel. The full mnemonic is "A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y and W". A word commonly used to illustrate w being a vowel is crwth.

Answer 5

In native English words W is always a consonant. But in some words borrowed from languages where W is a vowel (there are many) W can be a vowel in English.

Cwm: a shallow valley

Crwth : a medieval fiddle

Twp : feebleminded

(all borrowings from Welsh).

Answer 6

In English words, the w is vocalic when part of the diphthongs -aw, -ew and -ow, as for example in raw, hew and cow. The Welsh word crwth occasionally appears in English musical texts, but it is not really an English word.

Answer 7

W is a vowel sometimes, as is Y. There are words in Welsh that use only a W.

An example would be the word tow. Without the W the O would not be long. This illustrates that the W is forming a diphthong, which mirrors the use of the letter U from which it developed. After a vowel, W is considered as a vowel, with an "au, oo, or oh" sound. Before a vowel it is considered a consonant, with its "wh" sound.

Answer 8

In words from the Welsh language, like cwm.

Answer 9

In the 1800's the word crw which means a short pic ax was used. This word I still used in some English dialect.

Answer 10

Yes