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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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shoal

/ʃəʊl/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms shoaler shoalest shoals shoaling shoaled sheld shole shoald shold shaul shawl shauld schald shaud shawd

  1. adjective (now rare) Shallow. “shoal water”
  2. noun A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
  3. noun A shallow in a body of water.
  4. verb To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
  5. verb (transitive) To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
  6. verb To become shallow. “The colour of the water shows where it shoals.”
  7. noun Any large number of persons or things. “Shoals of tourists”
  8. noun (collective) A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
  9. verb To collect in a shoal; to throng. “The fish shoaled about the place.”

Synonyms

bank bar sandbar sandbank school shallow

Etymology

From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.

1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”).
Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; --said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon.
  2. verb To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place. Chapman.
  3. adjective Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
  4. noun A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.

Etymology [AS. scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude, crowd, akin to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin to Icel. skilja to part, divide. See Skill, and cf. School. of fishes.]

Etymology [Cf. Shallow; or cf. G. scholle a clod, glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a multitude.]

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

Sanskrit

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