- 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...