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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Salmon

/ˈsæmən/ proper noun, noun, adjective, verb

Forms Salmons salmoning salmoned Salmen

  1. proper noun A surname.
  2. proper noun A city, the county seat of Lemhi County, Idaho, United States, situated on the Salmon River, after which it was probably named.
  3. proper noun The father of Boaz by Rahab; the son of Nahshon (biblical figure).
  4. noun (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn. “grilled salmon”
  5. noun (uncountable) A meal or dish made from this fish.
  6. noun (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
  7. noun The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
  8. noun (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
  9. noun (Sri Lanka) canned fish, usually mackerel.
  10. adjective Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
  11. verb (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Synonyms

lax lox salmon pink Salmon River pink-orange pinkish-orange

Etymology

* (Idaho, river): named after the fish, salmon

From Hebrew שַׂלְמוֹן (salmown).

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations).
The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
  2. noun A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
  3. adjective Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.

Etymology [OE. saumoun, salmon, F. saumon, fr. L. salmo, salmonis perhaps from salire to leap. Cf. Sally, v.]

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