triphthong

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪfˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpˌθɒŋ(ɡ)/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪfˌθɔŋ/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpˌθɔŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪfˌθɑŋ/; (proscribed) /ˈtɹɪpˌθɑŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪfθɑŋ, (US) -ɪfθɔŋ

Noun

triphthong (plural triphthongs)

1. A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one.
2. A disyllabic sequence of a vowel, a semivowel, and a vowel.
   • 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^[1]:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• monophthong
• diphthong
• tetraphthong
• pentaphthong

 

Derived terms

• triphthongal

 

Translations

monosyllabic vowel combination involving movement from one vowel to another

• Arabic: تْرِفْثُنْغ m (trifṯunḡ)
• Armenian: եռաբարբառ (hy) (eṙabarbaṙ)
• Belarusian: трыфто́нг m (tryftónh)
• Breton: triftongenn f
• Bulgarian: трифто́нг m (triftóng)
• Catalan: triftong m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三合元音 (sānhé yuányīn), 三元音 (zh) (sānyuányīn)

• Czech: trojhláska f
• Danish: triftong, trelyd
• Dutch: drieklank (nl) m, triftong (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: triftongo
• Faroese: tríljóð n
• Finnish: triftongi (fi)
• French: triphtongue (fr) f
• Galician: tritongo (gl) m
• German: Triphthong (de) m
• Greek: τρίφθογγος m (trífthongos)

  Ancient: τρίφθογγος f (tríphthongos)

• Hungarian: hármashangzó (hu), triftongus (hu)
• Icelandic: þríhljóð n
• Ido: triftongo (io)
• Italian: trittongo m
• Japanese: 三重音字 (さんじゅうおんじ, sanjū onji), 三重字 (さんじゅうじ, sanjūji)
• Kazakh: трифтонг m (triftoñ)
• Korean: 삼중모음(三重母音) (samjungmo'eum)
• Latvian: triftongs m
• Limburgish: triftong
• Macedonian: трифтонг m (triftong)
• Norwegian: triftong
• Polish: tryftong (pl) m, trójgłoska f
• Portuguese: tritongo (pt) m
• Romanian: triftong (ro) m
• Russian: трифто́нг (ru) m (triftóng)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трѝфтонг m

  Roman: trìftong (sh) m

• Slovak: trojhláska f
• Slovene: triftong m
• Spanish: triptongo (es) m
• Swedish: triftong (sv)
• Ukrainian: трифто́нг m (tryftónh)
• Vietnamese: nguyên âm ba
• Welsh: trisain f