diphthong

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• UK: /ˈdɪfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/
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• UK: /ˈdɪpˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/
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• US: /ˈdɪpˌθɔŋ/
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• US: /ˈdɪfˌθɔŋ/
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• US, cot-caught-merger: /ˈdɪpˌθɑŋ/
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• US: /ˈdɪfˌθɑŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɪfθɔŋ
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• rhymes with -ɪpθɔŋ
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• rhymes with -ɪfθɑŋ
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• CMU ARPABET: D IH1 F TH AO2 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *dwóh1 Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Hellenic *dwi- Ancient Greek δι- (di-) Ancient Greek φθέγγομαι (phthéngomai) Ancient Greek φθόγγος (phthóngos) Ancient Greek δῐ́φθογγος (dĭ́phthongos)der. Latin diphthongusbor. French diphtongueder. English diphthong From French diphtongue, from Late Latin diphthongus, from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos, “two sounds”), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Afrikaans: tweeklank — complex vowel sound
• Arabic: مُصَوِّت مُزْدَوِج (muṣawwit muzdawij) — complex vowel sound
• Aragonese: diftongo — complex vowel sound
• Armenian: երկբարբառ (erkbarbaṙ) — complex vowel sound
• Asturian: diptongu — complex vowel sound
• Basque: diptongo — complex vowel sound
• Belarusian: дыфто́нг (dyftónh) — complex vowel sound
• Belarusian: двухгало́сны (dvuxhalósny) — complex vowel sound
• Bengali: জটিল স্বরধ্বনি (joṭil śśoroddhoni) — complex vowel sound
• Breton: diftongenn — complex vowel sound
• Bulgarian: дифто́нг (diftóng) — complex vowel sound
• Catalan: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Cebuano: diptonggo — complex vowel sound
• Cebuano: duhanog — complex vowel sound
• Cebuano: sikpat — complex vowel sound
• Chinese Cantonese: 雙元音 /双元音 (soeng1 jyun4 jam1) — complex vowel sound
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙元音 /双元音 (shuāngyuányīn) — complex vowel sound
• Czech: dvojhláska — complex vowel sound
• Danish: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Danish: tvelyd — complex vowel sound
• Dutch: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Dutch: tweeklank — complex vowel sound
• Esperanto: diftongo — complex vowel sound
• Estonian: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Estonian: kaksiktäishäälik — complex vowel sound
• Faroese: tvíljóð — complex vowel sound
• Finnish: diftongi — complex vowel sound
• Finnish: kaksoisääntiö — complex vowel sound
• French: diphtongue — complex vowel sound
• Friulian: diftonc — complex vowel sound
• Galician: ditongo — complex vowel sound
• Georgian: დიფთონგი (diptongi) — complex vowel sound
• German: Diphthong — complex vowel sound
• German: Doppellaut — complex vowel sound
• German: Zwielaut — complex vowel sound
• Greek: δίφθογγος (dífthongos) — complex vowel sound
• Ancient Greek: δίφθογγος (díphthongos) — complex vowel sound
• Hebrew: דִּיפְתּוֹנְג (diftóng) — complex vowel sound
• Hindi: संध्यक्षर (sandhyakṣar) — complex vowel sound
• Hungarian: kettőshangzó — complex vowel sound
• Hungarian: diftongus — complex vowel sound
• Icelandic: tvíhljóð — complex vowel sound
• Icelandic: tvíhljóði — complex vowel sound
• Ido: diftongo — complex vowel sound
• Indonesian: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Indonesian: bunyi rangkap — complex vowel sound
• Interlingua: diphthongo — complex vowel sound
• Irish: défhoghar — complex vowel sound
• Old Irish: déogur — complex vowel sound
• Italian: dittongo — complex vowel sound
• Japanese: 二重母音 (nijū boin) — complex vowel sound
• Kazakh: дифтонг (diftoñ) — complex vowel sound
• Korean: 이중모음 (ijungmo'eum) — complex vowel sound
• Kyrgyz: дифтонг (diftong) — complex vowel sound
• Lao: ສະຣະປະສົມ (sa ra pa som) — complex vowel sound
• Lao: ສະຣະຜະສົມ (sa ra pha som) — complex vowel sound
• Latin: diphthongus — complex vowel sound
• Latin: diphthongos — complex vowel sound
• Latvian: divskanis — complex vowel sound
• Latvian: diftongs — complex vowel sound
• Limburgish: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Limburgish: twieëklaank — complex vowel sound
• Lithuanian: dvibalsis — complex vowel sound
• Low German: Diphthong — complex vowel sound
• Low German: Tweeklang — complex vowel sound
• Macedonian: дифтонг (diftong) — complex vowel sound
• Malayalam: സംയുക്ത സ്വരം (saṁyukta svaraṁ) — complex vowel sound
• Māori: oro tōpū — complex vowel sound
• Māori: ororua — complex vowel sound
• Navajo: zaaʼáán ałtah — complex vowel sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Norwegian Bokmål: tvelyd — complex vowel sound
• Norwegian Nynorsk: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tviljod — complex vowel sound
• Occitan: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Old English: twifeald swēġ — complex vowel sound
• Old Norse: tvíhljóðr — complex vowel sound
• Persian: واکهٔ مرکب (vâke-ye morakkab) — complex vowel sound
• Polish: dyftong — complex vowel sound
• Polish: dwugłoska — complex vowel sound
• Portuguese: ditongo — complex vowel sound
• Romanian: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Russian: дифто́нг (diftóng) — complex vowel sound
• Russian: двугла́сный (dvuglásnyj) — complex vowel sound
• Russian: двоегла́сный (dvojeglásnyj) — complex vowel sound
• Northern Sami: diftoŋga — complex vowel sound
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-fhoghar — complex vowel sound
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghuth — complex vowel sound
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghuthach — complex vowel sound
• Serbo-Croatian: дво̏гла̄с — complex vowel sound
• Serbo-Croatian: dvȍglās — complex vowel sound
• Sicilian: dittongu — complex vowel sound
• Slovak: dvojhláska — complex vowel sound
• Slovene: diftóng — complex vowel sound
• Slovene: dvóglásnik — complex vowel sound
• Spanish: diptongo — complex vowel sound
• Swedish: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Tagalog: kambal-patinig — complex vowel sound
• Tagalog: diptonggo — complex vowel sound
• Tatar: дифтонг (diftong) — complex vowel sound
• Tibetan: དབྱངས་སྒྲ་ཉིས་ལྡན (dbyangs sgra nyis ldan) — complex vowel sound
• Ukrainian: дифто́нг (dyftónh) — complex vowel sound
• Ukrainian: двоголосни́й (dvoholosnýj) — complex vowel sound
• Uzbek: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Veps: diftong — complex vowel sound
• Vietnamese: nguyên âm đôi — complex vowel sound
• Vietnamese: nhị trùng âm — complex vowel sound
• Walloon: diftongue — complex vowel sound
• Waray-Waray: latontiringgan — complex vowel sound
• Welsh: deusain — complex vowel sound
• Yiddish: דיפֿטאָנג (diftong) — complex vowel sound
• Yiddish: צווייקלאַנג (tsveyklang) — complex vowel sound
• Yoruba: fáwẹ̀lì ẹlẹ́yọ̀ọ́ — complex vowel sound