onglide

== English == === Alternative forms === on-glide === Etymology === From on- +‎ glide. Compare Middle English ongliden (“to glide over”). === Noun === onglide (plural onglides) (phonetics) A phase while the articulators are moving into position to produce a new speech sound. (phonetics) The first, weaker part of a complex vowel, such as a diphthong, as the /j/ sound of the /juː/ in English few. ==== Antonyms ==== offglide === Verb === onglide (third-person singular simple present onglides, present participle ongliding, simple past and past participle onglided) (phonetics) To produce this sound. === Anagrams === doeling, glenoid