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diphthong

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See also:Diphthong

English

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WOTD – 17 September 2006

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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PIE word
*dwóh₁

FromFrenchdiphtongue, fromLate Latindiphthongus, fromAncient Greekδίφθογγος(díphthongos,“two sounds”), fromδίς(dís,“twice”) +φθόγγος(phthóngos,“sound”).

Pronunciation

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  • Notes: Pronunciations with /p/ are more common in American English than elsewhere.

Noun

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Examples (phonetics)

diphthong (pluraldiphthongs)

  1. (phonetics) A complexvowelsound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the samesyllable.
    Synonym:gliding vowel
    Coordinate terms:monophthong,triphthong,hiatus,synizesis
    • 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, inLingoblog‎[1]:
      In Lang Belta vowels usually appear preceding or following a consonant (see previous examples), and as of now no occurrence ofdiphthongs or triphthongs has been attested.
  2. (phonetics) Adiaphoneme realized as a two-target vowel in some but not necessarily all dialects.
  3. (rare) A voweldigraph orligature.
    • 1854, Robert Bigsby,Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby‎[2], Woodfall and Kinder, page47:
      And he might have written the name, also, with thediphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
    • 1860, Joseph E. Worcester,An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language‎[3], Swan, Brewer, and Tileston, page12:
      An improperdiphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as,ea inheat,oa incoal.
    • 1874, Theophilus Dwight Hall,A Child’s First Latin Book‎[4], John Murray, page 3:
      Thediphthongae is sounded likeē (§7); that is, it has the sound ofey inthey.

Coordinate terms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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complex vowel sound

See also

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References

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  1. ^“diphthong”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

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