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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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light

UK [laɪt] · US [ɫɐɪt] noun, verb, adjective, adverb, proper noun

Forms lights lighting lit lighted lighter lightest lite lighte lyght lyghte licht

  1. noun (physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers): visible light. “As you can see, this spacious dining-room gets a lot of light in the mornings.”
  2. noun (by extension) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye or in nearby ranges (infrared or ultraviolet radiation). “black light”
  3. noun (by extension, less commonly) Electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength.
  4. noun (countable) A source of illumination. “Put that light out!”
  5. noun A lightbulb or similar light-emitting device, regardless of whether it is lit. “We turned off all the lights and went to sleep.”
  6. noun A traffic light, or (by extension) an intersection controlled by traffic lights. “To get to our house, turn right at the third light.”
  7. noun (figurative) Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information. “Can you throw any light on this problem?”
  8. noun (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
  9. verb (transitive) To start (a fire). “We lit the fire to get some heat.”
  10. verb (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning. “She lit her last match.”
  11. verb (transitive) To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark. “I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.”
  12. verb (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire. “This soggy match will not light.”
  13. verb To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
  14. verb (transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability. “Light the extra ball by amassing 500 million points in the wizard mode.”
  15. adjective Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure. “The room is light when the Sun shines through the window.”
  16. adjective Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma. “She had light skin.”
  17. adjective (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream. “Do you want your coffee light or black? -I like mine light.”
  18. adjective Having little or relatively little actual weight; not heavy; not cumbrous or unwieldy. “a light load ; a lighter backpack after having removed the books ; light weapons”
  19. adjective Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity. “feathers and cork are light ; oil is lighter than water”
  20. adjective Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished. “to issue light coin”

Synonyms

visible light luminance radiation set ignite kindle conflagrate aflame alight fire fire up inflame enkindle light up set ablaze set afire set aflame set alight set fire set on fire visible radiation light source luminosity brightness brightness level luminousness illumination lightness lighting sparkle

Antonyms

darkness T-ray X-ray alpha ray beta ray gamma ray infrared longwave mediumwave microwave radio wave shortwave dark heavy

Etymology

From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht, from Proto-West Germanic *leuht, from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (“to shine”).
* Persian رُخش (roxš).

From Middle English lighten, lihten, from Old English līehtan (“to light, to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *liuhtijaną, from *leuhtą + *-janą. Cognate with German leuchten (“to shine”).

From Middle English light, liht, leoht, from Old English lēoht (“luminous, bright, light, clear, resplendent, renowned, beautiful”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian ljoacht (“light”), Dutch licht, German licht.

From Middle English liȝt, lyghte, from Old English lēht, lēoht, līht, from Proto-West Germanic *lį̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz or *līhtaz (“light (in weight)”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“lightweight”).
Cognate with Dutch licht (“light (not heavy)”), German leicht (“light (not heavy)”), Luxembourgish liicht (“lightweight”), Vilamovian łajcht (“easy”), Yiddish לײַכט (laykht, “light (of low weight)”), Danish let (“light (not heavy)”), Faroese lættur (“light (of weight); easy (to do)”), Icelandic léttur (“light (not weighing much); easy”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk lett (“light (not heavy); easy”), Swedish lätt (“light; of low weight”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 (leihts, “light (in weight)”); also Irish léim (“jump, leap; obstacle to be jumped; chasm, promontory”), Scottish Gaelic leum, lèim (“bound, frisk, leap; jump”), Welsh llai (“smaller; fewer, less”), Latin levis (“light (not heavy)”), Greek ελαφρός (elafrós, “lightweight; slight, thin, weak”), Albanian lehtë (“lightweight; easy”), Lithuanian lengvas (“light (not heavy); easy”), Belarusian лёгкі (ljóhki, “light (not heavy); easy”), Bulgarian and Macedonian лек (lek, “light (not heavy)”), Czech lehký (“light (of low weight); easy”), Polish lekki, lętki (“light (having little physical weight); easy (not demanding much effort; not difficult)”), Russian лёгкий (ljóxkij, “lightweight; easy”), Serbo-Croatian ла̏к, ла̏ган, lȁk, lȁgan (“easy; light (not heavy)”), Slovak ľahký (“light (of low weight); easy”), Slovene lahek (“light (of low weight); easy”), Ukrainian легки́й (lehkýj, “lightweight”), Armenian լանջ (lanǰ), լանջք (lanǰkʻ, “breast; mountain slope”), Persian لاغر (lâġar, “lithe; skinny; slender; thin”), Tocharian B lankᵤtse (“light (not heavy)”), Sanskrit लघु (laghu), रघु (raghu, “easy, light, not heavy or difficult”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
  2. noun That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc. Then he called for a light, and sprang in. Acts xvi. 29.
  3. adjective Having light; not dark or obscure; bright; clear; as, the apartment is light.
  4. adjective White or whitish; not intense or very marked; not of a deep shade; moderately colored; as, a light color; a light brown; a light complexion.

Etymology [OE.light, liht, AS. leót; akin to OS. lioht, D. & G. licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to shine, Gr. ruc to shine. Lucid, Lunar, Luminous, Lynx.]

Etymology [AS. leóht. See Light, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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