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Added 10 October 2026

onglide

noun

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about onglide at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound.
The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few.

verb

To produce this sound.

Origin

From on- + glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”).

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