triphthong

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• UK: /ˈtɹɪfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/
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• US: /ˈtɹɪfˌθɔŋ/
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• cot-caught-merger: /ˈtɹɪfˌθɑŋ/
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• cot-caught-merger, proscribed: /ˈtɹɪpˌθɑŋ/
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• rhymes with -ɪfθɑŋ
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• rhymes with (US) -ɪfθɔŋ
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From the Ancient Greek τρίφθογγος (tríphthongos, “triphthong, having three voices”), from τρία (tría, “three”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تْرِفْثُنْغ (trifṯunḡ) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Armenian: եռաբարբառ (eṙabarbaṙ) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Asturian: triptongu — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Belarusian: трыфто́нг (tryftónh) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Breton: triftongenn — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Bulgarian: трифто́нг (triftóng) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Catalan: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Chinese Mandarin: 三合元音 (sānhé yuányīn) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Chinese Mandarin: 三元音 (sānyuányīn) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Czech: trojhláska — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Danish: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Danish: trelyd — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Dutch: drieklank — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Dutch: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Esperanto: triftongo — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Faroese: tríljóð — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Finnish: triftongi — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• French: triphtongue — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Galician: tritongo — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• German: Triphthong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Greek: τρίφθογγος (trífthongos) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Ancient Greek: τρίφθογγος (tríphthongos) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Hungarian: hármashangzó — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Hungarian: triftongus — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Icelandic: þríhljóð — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Ido: triftongo — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Italian: trittongo — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Japanese: 三重音字 (sanjū onji) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Japanese: 三重字 (sanjūji) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Kazakh: трифтонг (triftoñ) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Korean: 삼중모음 (samjungmo'eum) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Latvian: triftongs — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Limburgish: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Macedonian: трифтонг (triftong) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Norwegian: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Polish: tryftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Polish: trójgłoska — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Portuguese: tritongo — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Romanian: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Russian: трифто́нг (triftóng) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Serbo-Croatian: трѝфтонг — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Serbo-Croatian: trìftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Slovak: trojhláska — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Slovene: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Spanish: triptongo — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Swedish: triftong — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Tagalog: katluang-patinig — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Ukrainian: трифто́нг (tryftónh) — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Vietnamese: nguyên âm ba — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another
• Welsh: trisain — monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another