inglide

noun

1. A brief transitional sound that precedes the main vowel in a diphthong or syllable, typically a short vowel-like segment at the onset of a nucleus.

   “Under certain conditions of stress, my vowels are lengthened or given an inglide.”

   “For example, he always uses the -y, -w adjuncts as markers for upglides and -h as a symbol for an inglide.”

   “Got-caught distinction: The /ɔ/ vowel sound of words like talk, law, cross and coffee and the often homophonous /ɔr/ in core and more are tensed and usually raised more than in General American, varying on a scale from [ɔ] to [ʊ], while typically accompanied by an inglide that produces variants like [oə] or [ʊə].”

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete, poetic)To glide softly or serenely into or upon something.

   “What though no bane inglide, Full waft each vein her tide, Each bone remain thy pride?”

   “Have ye not lately op'd your pearly portals wide, As a sainted poet's soul did noislessly inglide?”