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Definition of Diphthongizes
1. diphthongize [v] - See also: diphthongize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphthongizes
Literary usage of Diphthongizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guernsey: Its People and Dialect by Edwin Seelye Lewis (1895)
"{> e'ir > ee > a'ce' > u > u'o > uo' > w'cr > o'u- 2> a'u3 > a'u- (3) o' first
diphthongizes into o'w from which the separate developments spring: (a) o of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"According to Rhys the south side lengthens, whilst the north side diphthongizes;
eg Irish crann, " tree," dann, "offspring," S. Manx krön, klön, N. Manx, ..."
3. Studies in the word-play in Plautus. by Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn, University of Pennsylvania (1903)
"The combination sk differs from £, g, in that it diphthongizes guttural vowels,
and in that the cases with ce present contradictions not explainable as due ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp (1856)
"... but only receives an increment, and that increment always one and the same,
with which it diphthongizes itself, as in Greek, i and v with t, \enra>, ..."
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