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diaphone

noun

Etymology

From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

  1. derived from φωνή — “sound”
  2. prefixed as diaphone — “dia + phone”

Definitions

  1. A kind of organ pipe.

  2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by…

    A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

  3. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme

    A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for diaphone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA