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polyphthong

noun

Definitions

  1. A phoneme that begins with the sound of one vowel or semivowel and transitions through…

    A phoneme that begins with the sound of one vowel or semivowel and transitions through one or more other (semi)vowel sounds.

    • A syllable is short when ending in a short monophthong or in a short polyphthong; a syllable is long when ending in a consonant or in a long monophthong or a long polyphthong.
    • With small preliminary he told Russ and me something like the following - I have normalised his speech in the interests of general sanity, though his polyphthongs ('hayyut' for 'hat', 'bawun' for 'born', etc.) were of the rarest quality.

  2. A diaphoneme realized as a multitarget vowel in some but not necessarily all dialects.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polyphthong. 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