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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aurora

UK /əˈɹɔː.ɹə/ · US /əˈɹɔɹ.ə/ noun, proper noun

Forms auroras aurorae

  1. noun An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively.
  2. noun The Roman goddess of the dawn, equivalent to the Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs).
  3. noun The dawn or early morning light itself; the first light of day.
  4. proper noun (Roman mythology) Roman goddess of the dawn; equivalent of the Greek Eos. Sister of Luna and Sol.
  5. proper noun A female given name from Latin, in regular use since the 19th century.
  6. proper noun (astronomy) 94 Aurora, a main belt asteroid.
  7. proper noun (naval) the Russian cruiser Aurora, a cruiser of Soviet Navy.
  8. proper noun (poetic) the dawn
  9. proper noun A town in Ontario, Canada; named for the goddess.
  10. proper noun A town in the Western Cape, South Africa; named for the goddess.
  11. proper noun A town in Suriname.

Synonyms

chasma polar light dawn daybreak sunrise dawning morning first light break of day break of the day dayspring sunup cockcrow

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aurōra (“dawn”). Doublet of Eos.

Ultimately from Latin Aurōra. The Philippine placenames were named after First Lady Aurora Quezon, the wife of Pres. Manuel Quezon, the 2nd president of the Philippines.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
  2. noun The rise, dawn, or beginning. Hawthorne.

Etymology [L. aurora, for ausosa, akin to Gr. ushas, and E. east.]

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