triphthong

triphthong englanniksi

1. A monosyllabic vowel combination usually involving a quick but smooth movement from one vowel to another that passes over a third one.

2. A disyllabic sequence of a vowel, a semivowel, and a vowel.

3. (quote-web) type originally contained a triphthong. (..) In addition to evidence from the Safaitic inscriptions, the discovery of the Graeco-Arabic inscription A1 (Al-Jallad and al-Manaser 2015), where the verb ''’tw'' ‘he came’ is written αθαοα /’atawa/, confirms this to be the case for Old Arabic as well.