triphthong
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triphthong
- /ˈtɹɪfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/ UK
- /ˈtɹɪfˌθɔŋ/ US
- /ˈtɹɪfˌθɑŋ/ cot caught merger
- /ˈtɹɪpˌθɑŋ/ cot caught merger, proscribed
Rhymes with -ɪfθɑŋ, (US) -ɪfθɔŋ
Where it comes from
From the Ancient Greek τρίφθογγος (tríphthongos, “triphthong, having three voices”), from τρία (tría, “three”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).
noun triphthongs
- A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one. In Lang Belta vowels usually appear preceding or following a consonant (see previous examples), and as of now no occurrence of diphthongs or triphthongs has been attested.
- A disyllabic sequence of a vowel, a semivowel, and a vowel. 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 wr
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noun monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
| Español | triptongo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 삼중모음 samjungmo'eum |
| 日本語 | 三重音字 sanjū onji, 三重字 sanjūji |
| 中文 | 三合元音 sānhé yuányīn, 三元音 sānyuányīn |
| Português | tritongo |
| Français | triphtongue |
| Deutsch | Triphthong |
| Italiano | trittongo |
| Ελληνικά | τρίφθογγος trífthongos |
| Română | triftong |
| Русский | трифто́нг triftóng |
| Tiếng Việt | nguyên âm ba |
| العربية | تْرِفْثُنْغ trifṯunḡ |
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title = {triphthong},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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