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diaphone en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

  1. A kind of organ pipe.
  2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Forms

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Translations (1)

ru диафо́н (sound signal)

diaphone en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

Meanings

  1. A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Forms

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Relateds

diaphoneme · diaphonic · diaphonology

Translations (3)

fr diaphone (phonology: diaphone) · de Diaphon (phonology: diaphone) · it diafono (phonology: diaphone)