triphthong

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek τρίφθογγος (tríphthongos, “triphthong, having three voices”), from τρία (tría, “three”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪfθɒŋ(ɡ)/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpθɒŋ(ɡ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪfθɔŋ/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpθɔŋ/
• (CA; US, in accents with the cot-caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪfθɑŋ/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpθɑŋ/

Noun

triphthong (plural triphthongs)

1. A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one.

Derived terms

• triphthongal

Translations

monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another

• Arabic: ترفثنغ‎
• Armenian: եռաբարբառ (hy) (eṙabarbaṙ)
• Breton: triftongenn
• Bulgarian: трифтонг m (triftong)
• Catalan: triftong m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三合元音 (sānhé yuányīn), 三元音 (sānyuányīn)

• Danish: triftong, trelyd
• Dutch: drieklank (nl) m, triftong (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: triftongo
• Faroese: tríljóð n
• Finnish: triftongi (fi)
• French: triphtongue (fr) f
• Galician: tritongo m
• German: Triphthong (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρίφθογγος f (tríphthongos)

• Hungarian: hármashangzó, triftongus
• Icelandic: þríhljóð n

• Ido: triftongo (io)
• Italian: trittongo m
• Japanese: 三重音字 (さんじゅうおんじ, sanjū onji), 三重字 (さんじゅうじ, sanjūji)
• Kazakh: трифтонг m (trïftong)
• Latvian: triftongs m
• Limburgish: triftong
• Macedonian: трифтонг m (triftong)
• Norwegian: triftong
• Polish: tryftong (pl) m
• Portuguese: tritongo (pt) m
• Romanian: triftong (ro) m
• Russian: трифто́нг (ru) m (triftóng)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трѝфтонг m

  Roman: trìftong (sh) m

• Slovak: trojhláska f
• Spanish: triptongo (es) m
• Swedish: triftong
• Ukrainian: трифтонг m (tryftonh)
• Welsh: trisain f

See also

• diphthong