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diphthongize, v.|ˈdɪfθɒŋgaɪz|
[ad. Gr. διϕθογγίζ-ειν to spell with a diphthong: see -ize.]
1. trans. To turn into a diphthong.
1868G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 52 All sorts of broadenings and thinnings of vowels, diphthongizings [etc.]. 1874Sweet Eng. Sounds 56, ii and uu being diphthongized. 1877–9Trans. Philol. Soc. 458 In German, original long i was already diphthongized when the orthography began to settle down into its present form.
2. intr. To form a diphthong.
1867A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iii. 196 This second (ɹ) may diphthongise with any preceding vowel.
Hence ˌdiphthongiˈzation, the changing of a simple vowel into a diphthong.
1874Sweet Eng. Sounds 70 The most prominent feature of our present English is its tendency to diphthongization. |