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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

diphthongic en · ADJ

Etymology

From diphthong + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.
    • The old-diphthongic ou was sharply distinguished from the new-diphthongic ou 1874, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: