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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solace

UK /ˈsɒl.ɪs/ · US /ˈsɑ.lɪs/ noun, verb

Forms solaces solacing solaced

  1. noun Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress. “You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.”
  2. noun A source of comfort or consolation.
  3. verb (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
  4. verb (transitive) To allay or assuage.
  5. verb (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.

Synonyms

comfort consolation relief alleviation ease liss release respite besoothe soothe cheer console solacement

Etymology

From Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium (“consolation”), root from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
  2. noun Rest; relaxation; ease. [Obs.]
  3. verb To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; --applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
  4. verb To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.

Etymology [OF. solas, ssoulaz, L. solacium, solatium, fr. solari to comfort, console. Cf. Console, v. t.]

Etymology [OF. solacier, soulacier, F. solacier, LL. solatiare. See Solace, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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