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From diphthong +‎ -ize.

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diphthongize (third-person singular simple present diphthongizes, present participle diphthongizing, simple past and past participle diphthongized)

  1. (transitive, phonetics) To change to a diphthong, as by inserting or removing a vowel.
    Coordinate term: monophthongize
    • 2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 5:
      Some of these [monophthongs] will be diphthongised under the influence of following sounds.
  2. (intransitive, phonetics) To become a diphthong.

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