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Definition of Diphthongal
1. a. Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
Definition of Diphthongal
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a diphthong. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diphthongal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphthongal
Literary usage of Diphthongal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"... diphthongal Stems. These are -r¡v/-fv, -TJV, -ov, -a>i/-oi, -ш«. 507.]
Stems in -r¡v/-(v. On the cases of the v declension formed from a stem eu, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"diphthongal Fracture UW'a=9V. This fracture seems to occur before [1] only.
Before [r] the diphthong changes to [aaw] = (a«), see No. ..."
3. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"The tendency to make the long vowels diphthongal is noticed by foreigners as a
peculiarity of the ..."
4. The Manual of Phonography by Benn Pitman, Jerome Bird Howard (1892)
"diphthongal GLIDES. 57. The student has now had a sign given him for every
elementary sound of the language. He is not, however, prepared to write all the ..."
5. Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected by Carl Darling Buck (1910)
"... and ot beside cot at Olynthus. Dat. sg. -et is found also in an inscription
from Naples. NON-diphthongal COMBINATIONS OF VOWELS (CONTRACTION ETC. ..."
6. Orthophony: Or, Vocal Culture. A Manual of Elementary Exercises for the by William Russell, James Edward Murdoch, James Rush (1882)
"... for the species of organic action which CDa>titutes the "radical" portion of
any articulate soui.d. VOCAL AND diphthongal ELEMENTS. corresponding to the ..."
7. Twelve Thousand Words Often Mispronounced by William Henry Pinkney Phyfe (1908)
"COMPOUND OR diphthongal SOUNDS. There are in English, in addition to the fifty
simple sounds given above, several compound or ..."
8. Grammar of Elocution by John Willard (1889)
"The diphthongal vowel sounds are composed of two vowel sounds quickly blended
... Table of the Six diphthongal Vowel Sounds. 1. o-le begins with its own ..."
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