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English
Etymology
From diphthong + -ize.
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diphthongize (third-person singular simple present diphthongizes, present participle diphthongizing, simple past and past participle diphthongized)
- (transitive, phonetics) To change to a diphthong, as by inserting or removing a vowel.
- Coordinate term: monophthongize
2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 5:Some of these [monophthongs] will be diphthongised under the influence of following sounds.
- (intransitive, phonetics) To become a diphthong.
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