Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pair of letters representing a single speech sound, such as the ph in pheasant or the ea in beat.
- noun A single character consisting of two letters run together and representing a single sound, such as Old English æ.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Two letters used to represent one sound, as ea in head, th in path.
- Consisting of two letters used to represent one sound: as, digraph signs; digraph consonants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in
head , or th inbath .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun graph theory A
directed graph . - noun computing A two-character
sequence used to enter a single conceptual character. - noun linguistics A pair of
letters , especially a pair representing a singlephoneme .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
Etymologies
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Digraphs: The digraph is a two-letter "country code" that precisely identifies every entity without overlap, duplication, or omission.
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Digraphs: The digraph is a two-letter "country code" that precisely identifies every entity without overlap, duplication, or omission.
The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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A digraph is a union of two vowels, or of two consonants, in one sound.
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Thus, the center of a digraph is a vertex that is closest to the vertex most distant from it.
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Welsh seems to follow through the logic of the digraph=single-letter idea much more consistently than Spanish even before they stopped doing it at least ten years ago.
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I just typed: "Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus."
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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Interestingly, come to think of it, the digraph ph is often the mark of foreignness in Latin loans from Greek, as in our discussed word tōphus.
The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009
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The letter digraph represents the pronunciation of the vowel in .
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Though I believe the OE character "ae" ash is a digraph.
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The Guugu-Yimidhirr represents [N], so Cook wrote it down as 'kangooroo', but the digraph was later read as the more English-sounding [Ng].
pterodactyl commented on the word digraph
While we're on the subject of digraphs, perhaps I should mention my list of false digraphs...
October 20, 2009
jmjarmstrong commented on the word digraph
JM got a digraph in this morning's mail.
October 18, 2010