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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Thule

UK /ˈθjuːliː/ · US /ˈtuːliː/ proper noun

Forms Thulé, Thulê, Thulē, Thūlē, Tule [17ᵗʰ C.] Thyle [17ᵗʰ C.] Thylé Thoule

  1. proper noun The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
  2. proper noun (historical) A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
  3. proper noun The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
  4. proper noun A settlement in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
  5. proper noun An air base built on the site in the 1940s.
  6. proper noun A locality in the Murray River council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
  7. proper noun The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.

Synonyms

ultima Thule

Etymology

From Classical Latin Thūlē, Thȳlē, from Ancient Greek Θούλη (Thoúlē), Θῡ́λη (Thū́lē), of unknown origin, cognate with Middle English Tīle, Tȳle, from Old English Thȳle, Thīla, Thīle (variants of Þȳle) and Medieval Latin Tīle.

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.

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