triphthong
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English
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek τρίφθογγος (tríphthongos, “triphthong, having three voices”), from τρία (tría, “three”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪfˌθɔŋ/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpˌθɔŋ/
- (Canada, US, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪfˌθɑŋ/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpˌθɑŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪfθɑŋ, (US) -ɪfθɔŋ
Noun
triphthong (plural triphthongs)
- A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one.
- A disyllabic sequence of a vowel, a semivowel, and a vowel.
- 2017, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Was it sūrat al-baqárah? Evidence for antepenultimate stress in the Quranic Consonantal Text and its Relevance for صلوه Type Nouns:
- Before moving on to a solution, it may be worth emphasizing that nouns of the صلوه type originally contained a triphthong. […] In addition to evidence from the Safaitic inscriptions, the discovery of the Graeco-Arabic inscription A1 (Al-Jallad and al-Manaser 2015), where the verb ’tw ‘he came’ is written αθαοα /’atawa/, confirms this to be the case for Old Arabic as well.
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Translations
monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
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