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Definition of Diphthongized
1. diphthongize [v] - See also: diphthongize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diphthongized
Literary usage of Diphthongized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir (1921)
"About the same time the long u- vowels were diphthongized to ou (ie, o of present
Scotch not -\-'u of full). The Chaucerian mus: mis now appears as the ..."
2. Occitan Translations of John XII and Xiii-XVII from a Fourteenth-Century by Marvyn Roy Harris (1985)
"ALF 1268, suis-nous, can give us the possible area of extension of the various
diphthongized forms of the root which are found in manuscript A. Though I ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1874)
"... that a first became œ before all consonants (except nasals), so that aid
became (eld, and that this œ was then diphthongized into ea or rather œa. EO. ..."
4. Old Spanish Readings: Selected on the Basis of Critically Edited Texts by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1911)
"These forms could very well bear the accent, and there was doubtless a diphthongized
form for the accented position and a form without the diphthong for the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Much later, at the end of the 16th century, the sound was diphthongized
into "haus" (as now), but the spelling (ou) remained. The fact that y and t became ..."
6. The English Dialect Grammar: Comprising the Dialects of England, of the by Joseph Wright (1905)
"OE. u has not been diphthongized before a following nd. In s.Sc. OE. ï has become
ai when final and before voiced ..."
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