MONOPHTHONGIZE

Etymology

Verb

monophthongize (third-person singular simple present monophthongizes, present participle monophthongizing, simple past and past participle monophthongized)

(transitive, linguistics) To change to a monophthong (as by removing a vowel).

(intransitive, linguistics) To become a monophthong.

Source: Wiktionary



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