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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

valley

/ˈvæli/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms valleys valleying valleyed the Valley vallies

  1. noun An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it. “The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.”
  2. noun An area which drains itself into a river.
  3. noun Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
  4. verb (intransitive, poetic, rare) To form the shape of a valley.
  5. proper noun (countable) A surname from landforms.
  6. proper noun A community in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  7. proper noun A city in Chambers County, Alabama, United States, on the Georgia state line.
  8. proper noun A city in Nebraska, United States.
  9. proper noun A number of townships in the United States, listed under Valley Township.
  10. proper noun A village and community in Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH2979).

Synonyms

dale vale combe dell slade Vallee

Antonyms

levée

Etymology

From Middle English valeye, valey, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis. Doublet of vlei and vly. Displaced native dene, from dene and partially displaced native dale, from dæl.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
  2. noun (a) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

Etymology [OE. vale, valeie, OF. valée, valede, F. vallée, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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