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A monophthong ( Greek monóphthongos from mónos " single " and phthóngos " sound ") is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.
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A change that separated Old East Norse ( Runic Swedish / Danish ) from Old West Norse was the change of the diphthong æi ( Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e, as in stæin to sten.
In some formal situations ( such as when reading out from a text ), speakers may pronounce that weaker vowel, transforming the monophthong back into a diphthong.
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Hypercorrection occurs when a speaker attempting to sound formal transforms a monophthong into a diphthong when it has always been a monophthong, even in written language.
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The Old Norse diphthong au ( e. g. auga " eye ") remained in Old Gutnish and Old West Norse, while in Old East Norse — except for peripheral dialects — it evolved into the monophthong ǿ, i. e. a long version of ǿ.
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* In Belfast, is a monophthong in open syllables ( e. g. day ) but a rising diphthong in closed syllables ( e. g. daze ).
* When a long vowel is followed by " r ", some speakers of Indian English usually use a monophthong, instead of the diphthong used for many such words in many other accents.
* In some areas, especially in the southern half of Yorkshire, there is a tendency to pronounce the phoneme ( as in mouth ) as a monophthong.
In some western accents, there is a sixth monophthong phoneme, a close back unrounded vowel, found in for example " roof " and " deep ".
In historical linguistics, vowel breaking ( sometimes called vowel fracture ) is the change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong.
monophthong and vowel
The standard language has seven monophthong vowel phonemes.
Eastern Armenian has six monophthong vowel sounds.
Western Armenian has eight monophthong vowel sounds.
In Sri Lankan English, they are mostly pronounced with the monophthong / oː / (/ o /-close-mid back rounded vowel ) as / noːt /, / boːt /… This form has received general recognition in the country.
These words, which are also pronounced with a diphthong as / teɪk /, / meɪd /… in BrE and AmE, are generally pronounced with the monophthong / eː /, as / teːk /, / meːd /… (/ e /-close-mid front unrounded vowel, / ɪ /-near-close near-front unrounded vowel )
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** Crasis, contraction of two vowels into one monophthong
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eu: This digraph represents the diphthong which goes back to the Middle High German monophthong represented by iu.
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Standard Swedish does not have any diphthong vowels, but many more monophthong vowels than English.
monophthong and glide
The English word yes, for example, consists of a palatal glide followed by a monophthong rather than a rising diphthong.
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But the monophthong remains when inflectional endings are added, thus daze contrasts with days.
: Further explanation: The diphthong becomes the monophthong in some environments including before nasals ( e. g., downtown ), liquids ( e. g., fowl, hour ) and obstruents ( e. g., house, out, cloudy ).
* In Hull and much of the East Riding, the phoneme ( as in prize ) may become a monophthong before a voiced consonant.
Greek and from
While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.
They answered him in monosyllables, nods, occasionally muttering in Greek to one another, awaiting the word from Papa, who restlessly cracked his knuckles, anxious to stuff himself into his white Cadillac and burst off to the freeway.
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
Scientists assume that cholesterol ( from the Greek chole, meaning bile, and sterios, meaning solid ) is somehow necessary for the formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight.
It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.
With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.
After Thomas Aquinas wrote his theology, working from Moerbeke's translations, the demand for Aristotle's writings grew and the Greek manuscripts returned to the West, stimulating a revival of Aristotelianism in Europe that continued into the Renaissance.
The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.
Marie-Louise von Franz tells us the double approach of Western alchemy was set from the start, when Greek philosophy was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology.
The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.
Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.
Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.
Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani
The evolution of the Greek sculpture can be observed in his depictions from the almost static formal Kouros type in early archaic period, to the representation of motion in a relative harmonious whole in late archaic period.
The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.
The Greek words " ida " ( οίδα: know ) and " idos " ( είδος: species ) have the same root as the word " idea " ( ιδέα ), indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift of the senses, to the principles beyond the senses.
According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.
Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.
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