monophthong

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loanwords in Eng., where the monophthong might be expected to appear, nearly always have the diphthong, however, which as we know was kept in W. Scand. Have such words been borrowed from W. Scand. then, or were they borrowed from Dan.

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  1. noun A single vowel articulated without change in quality throughout the course of a syllable, as the vowel of English bed.
  2. noun Two written vowels representing a single sound, as oa in boat.

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  • loanwords in Eng., where the monophthong might be expected to appear, nearly always have the diphthong, however, which as we know was kept in W. Scand. Have such words been borrowed from W. Scand. then, or were they borrowed from Dan. —  Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
  • The Scand. loanwords in Eng., where the monophthong might be expected to appear, nearly always have the diphthong, however, which as we know was kept in W. Scand. —  Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
  • _blaik_, to cleanse; _graip_, a fork; _grane_, a branch; _graith_, to prepare; _laike_, to play; _slaik_, to smoothen; _lairing_, gutter; the Yorkshire form _lyring_ (Wall) seems to show an original monophthong. —  Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch
 

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  1. Late Greek monophthongos : Greek mono-, mono- + Greek phthongos, sound.

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  1. from Greek μονόφθογγος, of or with but one sound, containing but one vowel; as a noun, a single vowel; from μόνος, single, + φθόγγος, sound. Cf. diphthong.
 

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/ˈmɑnɑfθɔŋ/
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