The words quoted indicate the nature of the diphthongal system.
This is a diphthongal sound, equivalent to the sounds of middle a and open e quickly united.
Each of the diphthongalletters was doubtless, originally heard in pronouncing the words which contain them.
But after his time, since the sound of ei was merely that of i, ei is continually used merely to denote a long i, even where, as in faxeis for faxis, there never had been any diphthongal sound at all.
The diphthongalsound in roi is the vowel o + the semivowel w.
The i in bite is considered as the long (independent) sound of the i in pit; whereas it is a diphthongal sound.
The use of i with a diphthongal power is not only singular and inconvenient, but also historically incorrect.
We are said to drawl our words by protracting the vowels and giving them a more diphthongal sound than the English.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diphthongal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
