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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harmony

UK /ˈhɑːmə.ni/ · US /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/ noun, proper noun

Forms harmonies

  1. noun Agreement or accord.
  2. noun A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
  3. noun (music) The academic study of chords.
  4. noun (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
  5. noun (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
  6. noun A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency. “a harmony of the Gospels”
  7. proper noun A female given name from Latin.
  8. proper noun A male given name from Latin.
  9. proper noun A community in Rocky View County, Alberta.
  10. proper noun A community in Colchester County, Nova Scotia.
  11. proper noun A hamlet in Perth South, Perth County, Ontario.
  12. proper noun A community in North Dundas, United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California.
  15. proper noun (fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.

Synonyms

H/H H/Hr harmoniousness musical harmony concord concordance

Antonyms

dissonance

Etymology

From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie, armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”), either from or cognate with ἁρμόζω (harmózō, “to fit together”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join, fit, fix together”). First attested in 1602. Doublet of harmonia.

From harmony.

Blend of Harry + Hermione, based on the common noun harmony.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.
  2. noun Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.

Etymology [F.harmonic, L. harmonia, Gr. Article.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “harmony”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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