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

hill

[hɪɫ] noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hills hilling hilled

  1. noun An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain. “The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.”
  2. noun A sloping part of a landscape, especially one with a road, trail, etc. “You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.”
  3. noun (US) A heap of earth surrounding a plant.
  4. noun (US) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them. “a hill of corn or potatoes”
  5. noun (baseball) The pitcher’s mound.
  6. noun The raised portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
  7. verb To form into a heap or mound.
  8. verb To heap or draw earth around plants.
  9. proper noun (US, with "the") Capitol Hill; the US Congress
  10. proper noun (Canada, with "the") Parliament Hill; the Parliament of Canada; the parliamentary precinct in Ottawa as opposed to parliamentary functions elsewhere in the country
  11. proper noun A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived on or by a hill.
  12. proper noun A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
  13. proper noun A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.
  14. proper noun A small village and civil parish (without a council) in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6495).
  15. proper noun A hamlet in Leamington Hastings parish, Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4567).
  16. proper noun A suburb near Four Oaks, City of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1199).

Synonyms

mound J. J. Hill James Jerome Hill Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne pitcher's mound

Antonyms

dale

Etymology

From Middle English hil (“hill”), from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulli (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)).
Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Faroese hólur (“hill”), Icelandic and Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Norn hul (“hillock”), Norwegian hol (“low hillock”), Swedish kulle (“hill”), Catalan coll (“hill”), Italian colle (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas (“hill, mountain”), Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.

* As an English surname, from the noun hill, shortened from Hilary, and from Old English hild (“battle”).
* As a German surname, shortened from Hildebrand, related to the last sense above.
* As a Finnish surname, calque of Finnish Mäki (“hill”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
  2. noun The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants.
  3. verb To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.

Etymology [OE. hil, hul, AS. hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, L. collis, and prob. to E. haulm, holm, and column. Cf. 2d Holm.]

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

Sanskrit

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