diphthongise


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diphthongise


Past participle: diphthongised
Gerund: diphthongising

Imperative
diphthongise
diphthongise
Present
I diphthongise
you diphthongise
he/she/it diphthongises
we diphthongise
you diphthongise
they diphthongise
Preterite
I diphthongised
you diphthongised
he/she/it diphthongised
we diphthongised
you diphthongised
they diphthongised
Present Continuous
I am diphthongising
you are diphthongising
he/she/it is diphthongising
we are diphthongising
you are diphthongising
they are diphthongising
Present Perfect
I have diphthongised
you have diphthongised
he/she/it has diphthongised
we have diphthongised
you have diphthongised
they have diphthongised
Past Continuous
I was diphthongising
you were diphthongising
he/she/it was diphthongising
we were diphthongising
you were diphthongising
they were diphthongising
Past Perfect
I had diphthongised
you had diphthongised
he/she/it had diphthongised
we had diphthongised
you had diphthongised
they had diphthongised
Future
I will diphthongise
you will diphthongise
he/she/it will diphthongise
we will diphthongise
you will diphthongise
they will diphthongise
Future Perfect
I will have diphthongised
you will have diphthongised
he/she/it will have diphthongised
we will have diphthongised
you will have diphthongised
they will have diphthongised
Future Continuous
I will be diphthongising
you will be diphthongising
he/she/it will be diphthongising
we will be diphthongising
you will be diphthongising
they will be diphthongising
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been diphthongising
you have been diphthongising
he/she/it has been diphthongising
we have been diphthongising
you have been diphthongising
they have been diphthongising
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been diphthongising
you will have been diphthongising
he/she/it will have been diphthongising
we will have been diphthongising
you will have been diphthongising
they will have been diphthongising
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been diphthongising
you had been diphthongising
he/she/it had been diphthongising
we had been diphthongising
you had been diphthongising
they had been diphthongising
Conditional
I would diphthongise
you would diphthongise
he/she/it would diphthongise
we would diphthongise
you would diphthongise
they would diphthongise
Past Conditional
I would have diphthongised
you would have diphthongised
he/she/it would have diphthongised
we would have diphthongised
you would have diphthongised
they would have diphthongised
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.diphthongise - change from a simple vowel to a diphthong; "This vowel diphthongized in Germanic"
diphthongize
switch, change, shift - lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
break - undergo breaking; "The simple vowels broke in many Germanic languages"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
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The adverb enough, the adjective tough and the noun slough, now [sl[??]f], failed to diphthongise as their long vowel [u:] became shortened before the initial stage of the Shift.
The monophthongisation of diphthongs before dorsal fricatives: a corpus study
Also, pre-consonantal Northern English equivalents to Vowel 7 diphthongise to non-peripheral forms like [I[??] I[??] I[??]], though here, the French loans have Vowel 14, which produces peripheral diphthongs of the [iu:] type (Orton and Halliday 1962).
A. Jack Aitken, Older Scottish Vowels

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