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.

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Albany

/ˈɔːl.bə.ni/ proper noun

Forms Albanys Albyn

  1. proper noun (archaic) Scotland north of the River Forth.
  2. proper noun (historical) A prominent duchy bestowed upon younger sons of the royal family, belonging first to the Scottish peerage and then (after the 1707 Act of Union) to the British. It is currently suspended.
  3. proper noun A surname, from the title of the Duke of Albany.
  4. proper noun The capital city of the state of New York in the United States, and the county seat of Albany County, New York.
  5. proper noun A major river in Ontario, Canada.
  6. proper noun A Hudson's Bay Company trading post in Ontario and the community that remains at its site.
  7. proper noun A sizable city, the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States (76,939 during the 2000 census).
  8. proper noun (historical) A former district in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
  9. proper noun A home rule city, the county seat of Clinton County, Kentucky.
  10. proper noun A city, the county seat of Gentry County, Missouri.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Ray County, Missouri.
  12. proper noun A city, the county seat of Linn County, Oregon.
  13. proper noun A city, the county seat of Shackelford County, Texas, United States. Named after Albany, Georgia.
  14. proper noun A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
  15. proper noun A port city in the Great Southern region, Western Australia.
  16. proper noun A local government area in Western Australia; in full, the City of Albany.
  17. proper noun A northern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
  18. proper noun A suburb of Washington, City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ2957).

Synonyms

Scotland Albania Alba Albion Fort Nassau Fort Orange Beverwijck Willemstadt capital of New York

Etymology

From Middle English from Medieval Latin Albania (“Scotland”), from Scottish Gaelic Alba (“Scotland”), from Old Irish Albu (“Britain, Scotland”), from Proto-Celtic *albiyū (“world”, literally “white (place)”) (compare Old Welsh elbid (“world”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elbʰos (“white”), possibly in reference to the White Cliffs of Dover. Doublet of Albania.

From Middle English Albany ("Scotland"), a Scottish duchy created in 1398 and bestowed upon younger sons of the King of Scots which became a British title upon the 1707 Act of Union.

Named in honor of the crown prince James, Duke of Albany and York

Named in honor of Albany, the capital city of New York state

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “Albany”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details