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-pje for words ending in -m: boom (tree) → boompje (but bloemetje if the meaning is bouquet of flowers; see below) -kje for words ending in -ing: koning ( king ) → konin kje (the 'ng'-sound transforms into 'nk'), but vondeling → vondeling etje ( foundling )
alternative meanings of ambiguous morpheme, e.g. 2/3 for a morpheme that may be either 2nd or 3rd person, or DAT/GEN for a suffix used for both dative and genitive. [ 27 ] [ 6 ] [optional in place of period] a morpheme indicated by or affected by mutation, as in Väter-n (father\ PL-DAT.PL ) "to (our) fathers" (singular form Vater )
[2] Within the chart “close”, “open”, “mid”, “front”, “central”, and “back” refer to the placement of the sound within the mouth. [3] At points where two sounds share an intersection, the left is unrounded, and the right is rounded which refers to the shape of the lips while making the sound. [4]
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
In many cases, especially in suffixes, two identical consonant sounds merge into one sound in pronunciation, e.g. cenný [t͡sɛniː] ⓘ ('valuable'), měkký [mɲɛkiː] ⓘ ('soft'). In prefixes and composite words, lengthened or doubled pronunciation (gemination) is obvious.
Note also wholly (from whole), which may be pronounced either with a single l sound (like holy) or with a doubled l. [ 5 ] When the suffix is added to an adjective ending in a vowel letter followed by the letter l , it results in an adverb spelled with -lly, for example, the adverb centrally from the adjective central, but without a geminated l ...
m-suffix: forms the m-participle and m-optative from the simple / 9b: m-suffix: forms the future and conditional from the present stem / 9c: n-suffix: marks the absolutive (see position 2) / 9d: š-suffix: forms the š-optative and the -iš-Infinitive / 9e: Infinitive ending -as, -áas / optative suffix -áa (added directly to the stem) 10a
A diphthong (/ ˈ d ɪ f θ ɒ ŋ, ˈ d ɪ p-/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. [2]