"Diphthong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... II. i-Stems. III. Consonant-Stems which have partially adapted themselves to the inflection of i-Stems. IV. A very few stems ending in a long vowel or a diphthong. V. Irregular Nouns. ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... or Hyios. The Rule doesn't seem to address the possibility of upsilon coming first in a diphthong: upsilon iota is not common, but "Hui" looks more plausible ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein
... the sound of u long, as in few, chew, etc. (perhaps this may be considered a proper diphthong); ...
— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody
... two or three vowels, each of which is ordinarily possessed of full syllabic value, into a diphthong or a triphthong, thereby reducing the number of syllables in the word; h does not interfere with syneresis. Thus, area is normally a word of four syllables. In this verse it counts ...
— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup
... which follow it; partly by the fact that the syllable is in thesi; (2) the laws of position are to be observed, according to the general rules of classical prosody: (a) dactyls terminating in a consonant like beautiful, bounteous, or ending in a double vowel or a diphthong like all of you, surely may, come to thee, must be followed by a word beginning with a vowel or y or h; dactyls terminating in a vowel or y, like slippery, should be followed, except in rare cases, by words beginning with a consonant; trochees, whether composed of one word or more, ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus
... which consist of pure tone only. They are the most prominent elements of speech. A diphthong is a union of two vocals, commencing with one and ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... fewer than thirteen different nuances of vowel sound are distinguished under the symbol A alone. In English, moreover, the vowel sounds tend to become diphthongs, so that the symbol for the simple sound tends to become the symbol for that combination which we call a diphthong. Thus the long i in ride, wine, &c., has become the diphthong ai, and the name of the symbol I is itself so pronounced. In familiar, if vulgar, dialects, A tends in the same direction. In the "cockney'' ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
