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Definition of proper diphthong

proper diphthong
Diphthong Diph"thong (?; 115, 277), n. [L. diphthongus, Gr. ?; di- = di`s- twice + ? voice, sound, fr. ? to utter a sound: cf. F. diphthongue.] (Ortho["e]py) (a) A coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong. (b) A vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.

Meaning of proper diphthong from wikipedia

- two-syllable sequences of a long vowel followed by a short one, not proper diphthongs. Unlike modern English, Old Saxon was an inflected language rich in...
- accuracy used as a diphthong in combination with e at the end of some words, as in money, key, valley As non-syllabic [ɪ̯]: in diphthongs at the end of words...
- diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to distinguish from a digraph or diphthong. It consists of a two dots diacritic (◌̈) placed over a letter, generally...
- /ɑi/ and /ɔi/ are rare in Dutch. The "long/tense" diphthongs are indeed realised as proper diphthongs but are generally analysed phonemically as a long/tense...
- are sometimes called "proper diphthongs", while diphthongs with a long first element are sometimes called "improper diphthongs." Whether they have a long...
- the letter ü to indicate that a vowel pair that would normally form a diphthong must be pronounced as separate syllables (e.g. baül, diürna). Similarly...
- two-syllable sequences of a long vowel followed by a short one, not proper diphthongs. Old Saxon Old Saxon grammar Galleé, Johan Hendrik (1910). Altsächsische...
- ****horc, it is continued as ᛖ eh (properly eoh, but spelled without the diphthong to avoid confusion with ᛇ ēoh "yew"). The Proto-Germanic vowel system...
- cloak" contains examples of the /əʊ/ diphthong in the two different contexts. The onset of the pre-/l/ diphthong in "fold" is slightly more back and rounded...
- in some orthography-based transcriptions of English to represent the diphthong /eɪ/ (see Vowel length § Traditional long and short vowels in English...