diphthongal

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong. not-comparable
    — ‘This,’ the colonel said […] ‘is a lampshade. It looks like an ordinary lampshade. It was taken from the bedside lamp of Frau Koch. It’s genuine human skin.’ It sounded more gruesome spoken in his diphthongal southern manner—skee-ern.

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δι- (di-)
Ancient Greek φθέγγομαι (phthéngomai)
Ancient Greek φθόγγος (phthóngos)
Ancient Greek δῐ́φθογγος (dĭ́phthongos)der.
Latin diphthongusbor.
French diphtongueder.
English diphthong
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English diphthongal
From diphthong + -al.
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