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diphthongal

adj
/dɪfˈθɔŋɡəl/

Etymology

From diphthong + -al.

  1. derived from δίφθογγος
  2. derived from diphthongus
  3. derived from diphtongue
  4. suffixed as diphthongal — “diphthong + al”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong.

    • ‘This,’ the colonel said […] ‘is a lampshade. It looks like an ordinary lampshade. It was taken from the bedside lamp of Frau Koch. It’s genuine human skin.’ It sounded more gruesome spoken in his diphthongal southern manner—skee-ern.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for diphthongal. 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