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diphthongy

adj

Etymology

From diphthong + -y.

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

Definitions

  1. Having the quality of a diphthong.

    • This ghost is the only other person besides Neyeurme who can say it correctly because it has all these diphthongy tongue-strangling nuances to it.
    • American vowels tend to be very impure and diphthongy; you do NOT want this sound in your Italian or Latin.
    • You could see Oliver brightening up at the sight of that æ. He – keen on diphthongy things – really liked words with ligatures. Julius Cæsar!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for diphthongy. 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