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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tone

UK /ˈtəʊn/ · US /ˈtoʊn/ noun, verb, pronoun, proper noun

Forms tones toning toned

  1. noun (music) A specific pitch.
  2. noun (music) (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
  3. noun (music) (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
  4. noun The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
  5. noun (language, linguistics) The pitch of a word's sound that distinguishes a difference in meaning, as for example in Chinese.
  6. noun (language, dated) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm and a regular rise and fall of the voice. “Children often read with a tone.”
  7. noun (language, literature) The manner in which speech or writing is expressed, especially the aspects of diction (word choice), connotation, emotiveness, and register.
  8. noun (obsolete) State of mind; temper; mood.
  9. verb (transitive) to give a particular tone to
  10. verb (transitive) to change the colour of
  11. verb (transitive) to make (something) firmer
  12. verb (transitive) to utter with an affected tone.
  13. pronoun (now dialectal) the one (of two)
  14. proper noun A male given name, a short form of Anthony/Antony
  15. proper noun A river in Somerset, England, which flows into the River Parrett.

Synonyms

whole tone color colour dye paint tint firm firm up tone up tone of voice timbre timber quality spirit feel feeling flavor flavour look smell shade tincture note musical note pure tone tonicity tonus step whole step chant

Etymology

From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, tonos, and tonus.

From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
  2. noun Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
  3. verb To utter with an affected tone.
  4. verb To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

Etymology [F. ton, L. tonus a sound, tone, fr. Gr. Thin, and cf. Monotonous, Thunder, Ton fasion,Tune.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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