DIPHTHONGIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diphthongize mean? 

• DIPHTHONGIZE (verb)
  The verb DIPHTHONGIZE has 1 sense:

1. change from a simple vowel to a diphthong

  Familiarity information: DIPHTHONGIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPHTHONGIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they diphthongize    ... he / she / it diphthongizes   
Past simple: diphthongized   
Past participle: diphthongized   
-ing form: diphthongizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change from a simple vowel to a diphthong

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

diphthongise; diphthongize

Context example:

This vowel diphthongized in Germanic

Hypernyms (to "diphthongize" is one way to...):

change; shift; switch (lay aside, abandon, or leave for another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diphthongize"):

break (undergo breaking)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

diphthong (a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another)