diphthongal
- a word derived from diphthong.
Example Sentences
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The historical propriety or impropriety of certain letters.—The use of i with a diphthongal power is not only singular and inconvenient, but also historically incorrect.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Again, Oscan had two vowels more than Latin and was much more conservative of diphthongal sounds; it also used double consonants, which old Latin did not.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
He objects to the use of w for u in the diphthongal sound of ou, and therefore spells how, now, etc., hou, nou.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
This aw for i, which I have made Drinkwater use, is the latest stage of the old diphthongal oi, which Mr. Chevalier still uses.
From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard
