Syllable ::
Syllable (n.) An
elementary sound, or a
combination of
elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a
single effort or
impulse of the
voice, and
constituting a word or a part of a word. In other
terms, it is a vowel or a
diphtong, either by
itself or
flanked by one or more
consonants, the whole
produced by a
single impulse or
utterance. One of the
liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a
syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or
phrase need not to be
marked off by a
pause, but only