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Re: Bisyllabic or Disyllabic?

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 9, 2000, 18:39
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 06:51:08PM +0100, Raymond Brown wrote: > > > > Therefor IMHO 'disyllabic' is the preferred form (indeed, my dictionary > > does not list *bisyllabic); to me saying 'bisyllabic' would be just as odd > > as saying *biphthong ;) > > LOL!! "biphthong" sounds funny, indeed. Almost sounds like a pun on > "beef-thong"... Though I wonder, are there such things as triphthongs?
As a matter of fact, Shoshoni shows the following (where <e> is a high, central unrounded vowel): teaih 'small' peaittempeh 'old' neaippeh 'wind' tiai 'die.SG-SUBJ' If I had the dictionary handy, I could give you a handful of others. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu