Diphthongy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Diphthongy is an adjective meaning (informal) Having the quality of a diphthong.
Meaning
(informal) Having the quality of a diphthong.
Example Sentences
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!
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.
I thought it was a sort of weird diphthongy vowel, almost like the French "dure" (hard) crossed with "do-er" -- very distinctive in a hard-to-pin-down way.
Synonyms for diphthongy
Depending on context, synonyms include diphthongic, diphthongal.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monophthongal, thonged, biphonemic, diptotic, diphasic, multiphonemic.
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