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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sol

UK /sɒl/ · US /sɔl/ noun, proper noun

Forms sols soles so soh

  1. noun In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
  2. noun In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.
  3. noun (historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.
  4. noun (historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.
  5. noun In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.
  6. noun (astronomy) A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
  7. noun (physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
  8. noun (obsolete) A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.
  9. proper noun (poetic, science fiction) The Sun, the star orbited by the Earth.
  10. proper noun (Roman mythology) The sun god; equivalent of the Greek Helios. Brother of Luna and Aurora.
  11. proper noun (Norse mythology) The sun goddess.
  12. proper noun (nonce word) A male given name
  13. noun (heraldry, rare) Or (gold), in the postmedieval practice of blazoning the tinctures of certain sovereigns' (especially British monarchs') coats as planets.
  14. noun (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Gold.
  15. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Solomon.
  16. noun Space-occupying lesion of the brain can be caused by different pathology such as a malignancy, an abscess or a haematoma

Synonyms

sun ☉ ☼ colloidal solution colloidal suspension soh so

Etymology

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Learned borrowing from Old French sol (“French coin”) (modern French sou), from Latin solidum, the accusative singular of solidus (“Roman gold coin; (adjective) solid”). Doublet of sold, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

From Spanish sol (“sun”), from Latin sōl (“sun”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). Doublet of Sol and sol, directly from the Latin.

From Latin sōl (“sun”); see further at etymology 3. Doublet of sol from Spanish.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The sun.
  2. noun Gold; --so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.
  3. noun A sou.
  4. noun A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.

Etymology [L.]

Etymology [It.]

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