vocalic

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Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

The relations of grammar are thus expressed for the most part by changes of vocalic sound, just as in English the plural of "man" is denoted by a change in the vowel.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

A final w is vocalic, as in 'few.'

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Nouns whose stems originally ended in a vowel belong to the vocalic or so-called strong declension.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

When the word causing mutation ended in a vowel we get the vocalic mutation, called by Irish grammarians aspiration.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various