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Etymology
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From French diphtongue, from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos, “two sounds”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).
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diphthong (plural diphthongs)
- (phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
- Synonym: gliding vowel
- Coordinate terms: monophthong, triphthong
- (rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
1854, Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby[1], Woodfall and Kinder, page 47:And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
1860, Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language[2], Swan, Brewer, and Tileston, page 12:An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea in heat, oa in coal.
1874, Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book[3], John Murray, page 3:The diphthong ae is sounded like ē (§7); that is, it has the sound of ey in they.
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complex vowel sound
- Afrikaans: diftong, tweeklank
- Arabic: مُصَوِّت مُزْدَوِج m (muṣawwit muzdawij)
- Aragonese: diftongo m
- Armenian: երկբարբառ (hy) (erkbarbaṙ)
- Asturian: diptongu m
- Basque: diptongo
- Belarusian: дыфто́нг m (dyftónh), двухгало́сны m (dvuxhalósny)
- Bengali: জটিল স্বরধ্বনি (joṭil śśoroddhoni)
- Breton: diftongenn
- Bulgarian: дифто́нг m (diftóng)
- Catalan: diftong (ca) m
- Cebuano: diptonggo, duhanog, sikpat
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 雙元音/双元音 (soeng1 jyun4 jam1)
- Mandarin: 雙元音/双元音 (zh) (shuāngyuányīn)
- Czech: dvojhláska (cs) f
- Danish: diftong (da) c, tvelyd c
- Dutch: diftong (nl) m, tweeklank (nl) m
- Esperanto: diftongo
- Estonian: diftong, kaksiktäishäälik
- Faroese: tvíljóð n
- Finnish: diftongi (fi), kaksoisääntiö
- French: diphtongue (fr) f
- Friulian: diftonc m
- Galician: ditongo (gl) m
- Georgian: დიფთონგი (diptongi)
- German: Diphthong (de) m, Doppellaut (de) m, Zwielaut (de) m
- Greek: δίφθογγος (el) m (dífthongos)
- Ancient: δίφθογγος m (díphthongos)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: דִּיפְתּוֹנְג (he) m (diftóng)
- Hindi: संध्यक्षर (sandhyakṣar)
- Hungarian: kettőshangzó (hu), diftongus (hu)
- Icelandic: tvíhljóð n, tvíhljóði m
- Ido: diftongo (io)
- Indonesian: diftong (id), bunyi rangkap
- Interlingua: diphthongo
- Irish: défhoghar m
- Italian: dittongo (it) m
- Japanese: 二重母音 (にじゅうぼいん, nijū boin)
- Kazakh: дифтонг m (diftoñ)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 이중모음(二重母音) (ko) (ijungmo'eum)
- Kyrgyz: дифтонг m (diftong)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: diphthongus (la), diphthongos f
- Latvian: divskanis m, diftongs m
- Limburgish: diftong, twieëklaank
- Lithuanian: dvibalsis
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: diftong, tweeklaank
- German Low German: Diphthong, Tweeklang
- Macedonian: дифтонг m (diftong)
- Malayalam: സംയുക്ത സ്വരം (saṁyukta svaraṁ)
- Navajo: zaaʼáán ałtah
- Northern Sami: diftoŋga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: diftong m, tvelyd
- Nynorsk: diftong m, tviljod
- Occitan: diftong (oc) m
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Old Norse: tvíhljóðr m
- Persian: واکهٔ مرکب (fa) (vâke-ye morakkab)
- Polish: dyftong (pl) m, dwugłoska f
- Portuguese: ditongo (pt) m
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: diftong (ro) m
- Russian: дифто́нг (ru) m (diftóng), двугла́сный (ru) m (dvuglásnyj), двоегла́сный (ru) m (dvojeglásnyj) (dated)
- Scottish Gaelic: dà-fhoghar m, dà-ghuth m, dà-ghuthach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дво̏гла̄с m
- Roman: dvȍglās (sh) m
- Sicilian: dittongu
- Slovak: dvojhláska f
- Slovene: diftóng, dvóglásnik
- Spanish: diptongo (es) m
- Swedish: diftong (sv) c
- Tagalog: kambal-patinig, diptonggo
- Tatar: дифтонг m (diftong)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: དབྱངས་སྒྲ་ཉིས་ལྡན (dbyangs sgra nyis ldan)
- Ukrainian: дифто́нг m (dyftónh), двоголосни́й m (dvoholosnýj)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: diftong (uz)
- Veps: diftong
- Vietnamese: nguyên âm đôi, nhị trùng âm
- Walloon: diftongue
- Waray-Waray: latontiringgan
- Welsh: deusain f
- Yiddish: דיפֿטאָנג m (diftong), צווייקלאַנג (tsveyklang)
- Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì ẹlẹ́yọ̀ọ́
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