monophthong
noun/ˈmɒnəfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/UK/ˈmɑnəfˌθɔŋ/US/ˈmɑnəfˌθɑŋ/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μονόφθογγος (monóphthongos), from μόνος (mónos, “single”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).
- derived from μονόφθογγος
Definitions
A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same…
A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /aɪ/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /aɪə/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre").
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for monophthong. 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