diphthongal
adj/dɪfˈθɔŋɡəl/
Etymology From diphthong + -al.
1
Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong.
- ‘This,’ the colonel said […] ‘is a lampshade. It looks like an ordinary lampshade. It was taken from the bedside lamp of Frau Koch. It’s genuine human skin.’ It sounded more gruesome spoken in his diphthongal southern manner—skee-ern.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 56, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 456:
- Derived terms
- diphthongally, nondiphthongal