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A
A first letter of the alphabet . A is a usual symbol for a low central vowel, as in father; the English long a ( ā ) is pronounced as a diphthong of ĕ and y. The corresponding letter of the Greek alphabet is named alpha. Alpha and omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, symbo... Read more
I
I 9th letter of the alphabet . This vowel can be pronounced with a short vowel sound, as the Ĭ in sit, or with a long vowel sound, like the ī in ride. The Greek correspondent is iota. J is a formal development from I. English is pronounced as a diphthong of ä and y. In c... Read more
Y
Y 25th letter of the alphabet . It was a Latin importation of the eastern Greek upsilon (see U ), which was pronounced like ü; the Romans used it for Greek words. In English y mainly represents the semivowel occurring in words such as yet; the same semivowel is the second member of the... Read more
O
O 15th letter of the alphabet . It is a usual symbol for a mid-back, rounded vowel, rather like the first part of oi. Such a vowel was represented by omicron [Gr.,=little o ], its formal and positional correspondent in the Greek alphabet. English ō is a diphthong of ŏ and w. In ... Read more
U
U 21st letter of the alphabet , corresponding to the Greek upsilon [Gr.,=u without the aspirate]. Until the late Middle Ages the capital was V, the minuscule u, no distinction being made between the consonantal and vocalic uses of the letter. The fixing of modern orthography, however, has rest... Read more
Portuguese language
Portuguese language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, chiefly in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic (11 million speakers); in Brazil (154 milli... Read more
English language
English language member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages ). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. It is the mother tongue of about 60 millio... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Diphthong"

DIPHTHONG
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language DIPHTHONG. 1. In PHONETICS , a VOWEL that starts...vowels. There are several varieties of diphthong: wide and narrow; closing and opening; centring; falling and rising. A wide diphthong has a marked change in quality: in RP...
SCOTTISH ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...are distinct phonemes in such words as rise and rice . The /aɪ/ diphthong occurs in rise , tie/tied , sly , why while the /əɪ/ diphthong occurs in rice , tide , slide , while , as well as in such borrowings from...
LONDON
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...some of its features are shared by Londoners who are not themselves Cockneys. Some vowel and diphthong sounds, notably the nasalization of the diphthong /au/ as in now and the changing of /ei/ to /ai/ which makes paper sound like piper...
DUBLIN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...short) /a/; in words such as suit and school there is a diphthong, so that for many people suit/suet are homophones; in...x2018;toy’ and ‘boy’; the diphthong /æu/ occurs in such words as how and mouse , and...
Semiotics
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...doctrine of the essential nature and fundamental varieties of ” possible sign-activity, semeiotic (emphasizing the diphthong ei in semeion [sign] in its spelling to indicate the word ’ s Greek origin), though he sometimes used the term...
U
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...v/ is a labio-dental consonant; /w/ is a labial semi-vowel. In Modern English, French u has been Anglicized as a diphthong with a preceding i -glide ( music , argue ) and u commonly represents /w/ before a vowel after g , q , and s ( anguish...
O
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...burrow , furrow ); and also in window (from a Scandinavian compound of wind + eye ) and bungalow (from Hindi). (5) The diphthong value of final -ow ( now , vow ) is rare in polysyllables: allow , endow . (6) Some FRENCH loans have a final silent consonant...
Madeirans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...The most distinctive pronunciation feature is a characteristic shift of high front "i" (as in English " see ") to the diphthong "ei" (as in "they" ). A marked contrast between the speech of Madeira's urban elites and rural folk is a strong indicator...
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...long back vowel of RP car in a higher and more rounded version as in the stereotype ‘pork the car’; diphthong reductions as in fair hair as /feː heː/, and the vowel of RP price in a glideless or nearly glideless...
VOWEL QUANTITY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...English word ends in a vowel, then the vowel must be either heavy (that is, it is either marked with a length mark or is a diphthong) or reduced: for example, me /miː/, day /deɪ/, banana /-nə/. See VOWEL QUALITY...

Dictionary entries related to "Diphthong"

diphthong
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable diphthong a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable...coin , loud , and side ). Also, a digraph representing the sound of a diphthong or single vowel (as in feat ); a compound vowel character; a ligature...
fracture
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...surface formed. 2. Phonet. the replacement of a simple vowel by a diphthong owing to the influence of a following sound, typically a consonant. ∎  a diphthong substituted in this way. • v. break or cause to break...
show
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...shew , shewn , repr. orig. a falling diphtong ( sċēaw- ), as against show , which repr. a rising diphthong ( sċeāw- ), is now of limited currency. Hence show sb. XIII; whence showy ( -Y1 ) XVIII.
dieresis
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...naïve , Brontë . ∎  the division of a sound into two syllables, esp. by sounding a diphthong as two vowels. 2. Prosody a natural rhythmic break in a line of verse where the end of a metrical foot coincides with the...
assonance
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...nance / ˈasənəns / • n. in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence , reticence...
synizesis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology synizesis (gram., pros.) coalescence of two adjacent vowels without forming a recognized diphthong. XIX. — late L. synizēsis — Gr. sunízēsis , f. sunizánein sink down, f. SYN- + hizánein sit.
shed
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...skaiþan . Beside orig. OE. sċ(e)ādan , repr. by early ME. shode , a var. with falling diphthong sċēadan arose, from which the present shed descends. The OE. vb. retained its str. conjugation in...
pure
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...such as pure physics. Compare with applied . ∎  Phonet. (of a vowel) not joined with another to form a diphthong. ∎  involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis): a shout of pure anger an...
triphthong
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology triphthong combination of three vowels in one syllable. XVI. — F. triphtongue , f. TRI- , after DIPHTHONG .
chock-full
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...they may repr. differentiated forms of OE. ċēoce or ċēace CHEEK , according as the diphthong was rising or falling. The modern chokefull dates from XVII, chockfull from XVIII, with a var. chuckfull , which may be...

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On the diphthong/hiatus contrast in Spanish: some experimental results *.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...phonological contrasts between hiatus and diphthong or, in other terms, between high vowels...belonging to either the hiatus or the diphthong class within a given dialect or across...tested, the hypothesized hiatus and diphthong classes present different durational...
The diphthong dictates; LETTERS.(Letters)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/24/2009; 322 words ; ...60-plus years ago: 'When the diphthong rhymes with "key", the "i" must come before the "e", unless the diphthong follows "c".' Easy, isn't...my dictionary's definition of 'diphthong': 'A gliding vowel sound which...
Mister Language Person is the epitome of a diphthong
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 2/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...grammar column approved for internal use by the Food and Drug Administration; the grammar column that puts the "dip" in "diphthong," the "vern" in "vernacular," and the "dang" in "dangling participle." We shall commence right at the outset by...
Diphthong songs
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/31/2000; ; 700+ words ; A Merrittocracy Moonlights the Magnetic Field of Dreams THE 6THS Hyacinths and Thistles Merge FUTURE BIBLE HEROES I'm Lonely (and f Love ft) Merge Stephin Merritt's grand project involves nothing less than the mass production of pop. Those 69 love songs reveal new facets every time you hold them up
A loop-the-loop ace in diphthong aerobatics
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 4/29/2000; ; 700+ words ; WHEN to the sessions of sweet, silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sometimes enter an enclave resembling a deserted aircraft hangar, where once the sleek, scripto-dynamic shape of what I called The Pitman Flyer stood, lovingly maintained, fuel-led by high-octane cerebral
The loss of [ei] : [ai] opposition in Middle English *.(LINGUISTICS)(Report)
Magazine article from: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...conditioning of the elimination of the diphthong [ei] in Middle English, a process...merger with [ai], another closing diphthong. The change, a dissimilatory process...lowering of the first segment of the diphthong. A small selection of words which contained...
The development of fine-grained phonological knowledge in adult second language learners of Spanish.(Table)(Case study)
Magazine article from: Southwest Journal of Linguistics; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...assignment in /n/-final nouns and the diphthong/ mid-vowel alternation in derived...assignment in /n/-final nouns and the diphthong/mid-vowel alternation in derived...different probability that an alternating diphthong would surface as a diphthong in unstressed...
Dance Company to Bring Wide-Ranging Repertoire to Orange County, Calif.
Newspaper article from: The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 10/10/2003; 700+ words ; ...But his brand new piece, called "Diphthong," set to early recordings of the Belgian...it was dance that he really loved. "Diphthong" was inspired by Zap Mama, an all...twice as long and changed the name to "Diphthong," which, he said, is "sort of appropriate...
Frost's STOPPING BY WOODS and Roethke's THE BAT.(Robert Frost;Theodore Roethke)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Diphthongs, two vowels at a time--the diphthong in bite (a sound spelled ai in romance languages) and the au diphthong in house--also take longer to say...sibilant fricative, followed by a diphthong, followed by a consonant cluster ndz...
NAVIGATING THE EPIGRAPHIC STORM: A Palaeographer Reflects on Inscriptions from the Market
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...with substantial confidence that in northern Israelite the diphthong /ay/ contracted to /e/ and the diphthong /aw/ contracted to /o/; however, in the Judahite dialect the diphthong remained uncontracted in all positions. Knowledge of provenance...