ə

Etymology
for his grammar of.

Symbol

 * 1)  a reduced mid-central vowel, undefined for rounding.
 * 2)  -coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo.

Usage notes
The IPA provides two letters for reduced vowels: low/open ⟨ɐ⟩ and mid ⟨ə⟩. These are not defined for rounding. For languages such as English, French and Russian that have additional or just different reduced vowels, some sources use the non-IPA letters ⟨ᵿ⟩ and ⟨ᵻ⟩ for high/close rounded and unrounded reduced vowels, or redefine IPA ⟨ɵ⟩ for a specifically rounded mid reduced vowel.

Alternative forms

 * $⟨⟩$ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)

Letter

 * 1) A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet. Osage script 𐓛.

Etymology
Probably from IPA transcription or even before from German transcriptions.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sounds [, ].

Usage notes
Symbol is sometimes used as a letter to denote pitch and pronunciation in a word, but that is mostly limited to foreign or specialized dictionaries.