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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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lu

/luː/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of loo Lugh

Forms lus luing lued Loo Lou Louh

  1. noun (historical) Synonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.
  2. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Lucy and related names.
  3. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 呂／吕 (Lǚ).
  4. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 盧／卢 (Lú).
  5. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 陸／陆 (Lù).
  6. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 魯／鲁 (Lǔ).
  7. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 路 (Lù).
  8. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 蘆／芦 (Lú).
  9. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 祿／禄 (Lù).
  10. proper noun A Chinese surname from Mandarin from 逯 (Lù).
  11. proper noun A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
  12. proper noun 魯國／鲁国 (Lǔguó); An ancient vassal state of China that existed approximately between 1042–249 BC.
  13. proper noun Synonym of Luren (“a Chinese language”).
  14. proper noun A Chinese surname (see 盧, 卢).
  15. noun (linear algebra) A matrix decomposition which writes a matrix as the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix, used in numerical analysis to solve systems of linear equations or find the inverse of a matrix.
  16. proper noun A municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
  17. proper noun A Tai-Kadai language spoken in Yunnan province of China, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
  18. proper noun A surname from Chinese.
  19. proper noun A surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, see 陸／陆 (Lù).

Synonyms

route or circuit Luren lutetium lutecium atomic number 71

Etymology

A romanization of Chinese 路 (lù, “route”)

Clipping of Lucy, Lucille, and similar names.

From Mandarin surname pronunciations

From Hokkien 呂 /吕 (Lū).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See Loo.

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