| 单词 | diphthong |
| 释义 | diphthong —diphthongal /dif thawng"geuhl, -thong"-, dip-/, diphthongic, diphthongous, adj. /dif"thawng, -thong, dip"-/, n. 1. Phonet. an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi-sound of toy or boil. 2. (not in technical use) a. a digraph, as the ea of meat. b. a ligature, as ae. v.t. , v.i. 3. to diphthongize. [1425-75; late ME diptonge < LL diphthongus < Gk díphthongos lit., having two sounds (di- DI-1 + phthóngos voice, sound)] |
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