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Definition of Triphthongs
1. triphthong [n] - See also: triphthong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triphthongs
Literary usage of Triphthongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Collections of Derbicisms Containing Words and Phrases in a Great by Samuel Pegge, Thomas Hallam (1896)
"VOWELS, DIPHTHONGS, AND triphthongs; with the Pronunciation of the Words in the
... [w] is a vowel in the second element of diphthongs and triphthongs. ..."
2. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"There are five triphthongs, viz., aoi, eoi, iai, iui, and oei, uai, of which the
first ... TABLE OF THE SOUNDS OF THE triphthongs. aoi. ..."
3. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"There are five triphthongs, viz., ... TABLE OF THE SOUNDS OF THE triphthongs.
aoi. Ctoi, always long, nearly like nee in queen, as caom, keen, mild ; maoin, ..."
4. John Hart's Pronunciation of English (1569-1570) by Otto Jespersen (1907)
"The rest of the diphthongs and triphthongs, see" word-lists 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 18,
31, 38, 39, really present some very intricate problems; ..."
5. A Grammar of the Modern Spanish Language as Now Written and Spoken in the by William Ireland Knapp (1896)
"Diphthongs and triphthongs. 20. These are vowels in juxtaposition which are
pronounced in one wave of sound, forming, either alone or with a foregoing ..."
6. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown (1856)
"DIPHTHONGS AND triphthongs. A diphthong is two vowels joined in one syllable;
as, ea in beat, ou in sound. ..."
7. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1872)
"DIPHTHONGS AND triphthongs. A diphthong is two vowels joined in one syllable;
aa, ea in beat, ou in sound. A proper diphthong, is a diphthong in which bo*h ..."
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