Supporting vowel

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As a supporting vowel is called in linguistics a vowel in final position, which, contrary to the otherwise anticipated change process is retained to heavy consonance to avoid. It differs from the epithesis in that the supporting vowel is etymologically motivated, while the epithesis is appended to a lexeme for phonetic reasons .

Examples of supporting vowels are the u in piemont. Vermu (see. verme > worm <) or e in venez. pare ( padre ' father'). While the unstressed final vowel is usually not used in Piedmontese and Venetian , it is retained here in order to avoid the heavy consonance in the final (* rm #, * dr #).