Falling diphthong

A falling diphthong is a diphthong whose first part is more sonorous, so that the stress is on their first part.


 * "Those [diphthongs] in which the stress is strongest at or near the beginning are called falling diphthongs. (The stress falls.)" (Gleason 1955:203)

Examples
[au], [ei], [ou]

Other languages
German fallender Diphthong