Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

vale

/veɪl/ noun, interjection, proper noun

Forms vales The Vale

  1. noun (chiefly poetic) A valley.
  2. interjection (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.
  3. proper noun (soccer, informal) Port Vale FC.
  4. proper noun An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina.
  5. proper noun A small area of Catawba County, North Carolina.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
  7. proper noun A city, the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon.
  8. proper noun A census-designated place and township in Butte County, South Dakota.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
  10. proper noun A small settlement near Cornholme, Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9126).
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

dale valley combe dell slade

Antonyms

hill

Etymology

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displaced native Old English dell.

Borrowed from Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō (“be well”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. " Make me a cottage in the vale." Tennyson.
  2. noun See 2d Vail, 3.

Etymology [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “vale”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “vale” (best matches first).