EGAVE

diphthongization

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).

Similar words

dialecticalisation spirantisation syneresis singularisation colloquialisation pluralisation syllabisation synairesis polyglottism dualisation

Often followed by

of in and is rule before process to as

Word family

diphthongizations diphthongize diphthongized diphthongizes diphthongizing

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