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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Alpha

/ˈæl.fə/ proper noun, noun, adjective

Forms Alphas

  1. proper noun A ghost town in California, United States (USA).
  2. proper noun A village in Illinois, United States.
  3. proper noun A village in Michigan, United States.
  4. proper noun A city and village in Minnesota, United States.
  5. proper noun A borough of New Jersey, United States.
  6. proper noun A town in Queensland, Australia.
  7. proper noun Former name of the International Space Station.
  8. proper noun (computing) A RISC CPU instruction set architecture developed and marketed by Digital Equipment Corporation (then later by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard) from 1992 until 2004.
  9. noun A member of Generation Alpha.
  10. noun The name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet (Α, α), followed by beta. In the Latin alphabet it is the predecessor to A.
  11. noun Latin alpha: the Latin letter Ɑ (minuscule: ɑ).
  12. noun (sciences) The name of the symbols Α and α used in science and mathematics, often interchangeable with the symbols when used as a prefix. “I will attempt to make an alpha particle ("α-particle") with the Large Hadron Collider.”
  13. noun (finance) The return of a given asset or portfolio adjusted for systematic risk.
  14. noun A person, especially a male, who is dominant, successful and attractive; (see alpha male).
  15. noun (software engineering) The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.
  16. noun (aviation) An angle of attack.
  17. noun (computer graphics) The level of translucency of a color, as determined by the alpha channel.
  18. adjective Designates the first in an order of precedence. “I am the alpha male.”
  19. adjective (of person, object or action) Exhibiting characteristics of the alpha male/female archetype.
  20. adjective (astronomy) Designates some bright star, usually the brightest star, of a constellation. “When interstellar travel becomes feasible, I plan to visit Alpha Centauri.”

Synonyms

Gen Alpha Generation Alpha

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.

Etymology [L. alpha, Gr. 'a`lfa, from Heb. aleph, name of the first letter in the alphabet, also meaning ox.]

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