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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octave

UK /ˈɒktɪv/ · US /ˈɑktɪv/ noun, adjective

Forms octaves octaving octaved

  1. noun (music) An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency. “The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.”
  2. noun (music) The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch. “The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.”
  3. noun (music) A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
  4. noun (poetry) A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
  5. noun (fencing) The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
  6. noun (Christianity) The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
  7. noun (Christianity) An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
  8. noun A small cask of wine, one eighth of a pipe.
  9. adjective (obsolete) Consisting of eight; eight in number.

Synonyms

musical octave

Etymology

From Latin octavus (“eighth”). Doublet of octavo, ochava, and oitava.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. "The octaves of Easter." Jer. Taylor.
  2. noun (a) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
  3. adjective Consisting of eight; eight. Dryden.

Etymology [F., fr. L. octava an eighth, fr. octavus eighth, fr. octo eight. See Eight, and cf. Octavo, Utas.]

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

Sanskrit

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