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triphthong en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtɹɪfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/ (UK)
• /ˈtɹɪfˌθɔŋ/ (US)
• /ˈtɹɪpˌθɑŋ/ (cot-caught-merger, proscribed)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈtɹɪfˌθɑŋ/ (cot-caught-merger)
• (US)
• (UK)

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek τρίφθογγος (tríphthongos, “triphthong, having three voices”), from τρία (tría, “three”) + φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound”).

Meanings

1. A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one.
   • In Lang Belta vowels usually appear preceding or following a consonant (see previous examples), and as of now no occurrence of diphthongs or triphthongs has been attested. 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog:
2. A disyllabic sequence of a vowel, a semivowel, and a vowel.
   • Before moving on to a solution, it may be worth emphasizing that nouns of the صلوه type originally contained a triphthong. […] In addition to evidence from the Safaitic inscriptions, the discovery of the Graeco-Arabic inscription A1 (Al-Jallad and al-Manaser 2015), where the verb ’tw ‘he came’ is written αθαοα /’atawa/, confirms this to be the case for Old Arabic as well. 2017, Ahmad Al-Jallad, Was it sūrat al-baqárah? Evidence for antepenultimate stress in the Quranic Consonantal Text and its Relevance for صلوه Type Nouns:

Forms

Coordinates

monophthong · diphthong · tetraphthong · pentaphthong

Deriveds

triphthongization · triphthongal · triphthongize

Translations (50)

it trittongo (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · kk трифтонг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · hu triftongus (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · hu hármashangzó (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · br triftongenn (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ru трифто́нг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · sk trojhláska (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · sh trìftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · lv triftongs (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · eo triftongo (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · el τρίφθογγος (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · nl drieklank (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · da trelyd (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · sl triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · de Triphthong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · tl katluang-patinig (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · fo tríljóð (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · es triptongo (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ca triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · io triftongo (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · no triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · vi nguyên âm ba (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · pl trójgłoska (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ja 三重字 (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · sv triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · hy եռաբարբառ (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · cmn 三合元音 (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ro triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · gl tritongo (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · pl tryftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · be трыфто́нг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · bg трифто́нг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · cs trojhláska (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · cy trisain (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · pt tritongo (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ar تْرِفْثُنْغ (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · uk трифто́нг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · is þríhljóð (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · sh трѝфтонг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · mk трифтонг (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · cmn 三元音 (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ja 三重音字 (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · da triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · li triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · grc τρίφθογγος (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ko 삼중모음 (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · fr triphtongue (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · nl triftong (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · fi triftongi (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another) · ast triptongu (monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another)