| 单词 | monophthong |
| 释义 | monophthong|ˈmɒnəfθɒŋ|
[ad. Gr. µονόϕθογγ-ος adj., f. µόνο-ς mono- + ϕθόγγος sound.]
A single vowel sound. Also attrib.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 303 Syllables of one letter, that is, euery vowell, Monophthongues. 1776Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) I. 219 An equal mixture of consonants with soft and monophthong vowels. 1783J. Beattie Diss. 266 Eau in beau is as truly a monophthong as the interjection O. 1885E. Sievers in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 782/2 The sound of the so-called long a in make, paper, &c., although once a monophthong, is now pronounced as a diphthong. 1888Sweet Eng. Sounds 22 The levelling of the two elements of a diphthong under a monophthong.
Hence monophthongal |mɒnəfˈθɒŋgəl| a., consisting of a monophthong; monophˈthonging vbl. n. = monophthongization.
1783J. Beattie Diss. 266 Grammarians..speak of trip-thongs, or three monophthongal sounds coalescing in one syllable. 1863A. M. Bell Princ. Speech 123 The Scottish dialect, in which the monophthongal A is a very common vowel. 1894G. Dunn in Class Rev. Mar. 94 In general..diphthongs have two monophthongal correlates. Thus: eu: ū: ŭ. 1894F. J. Curtis Invest. Rimes Clariodus 52 The monophthonging of ai was of too old a date to allow us to suppose that [etc.]. |
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