Ys
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ys"
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]Ys
- (metrology) Symbol for yottasecond, an SI unit of time equal to 1024 seconds.
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈiːs/
- Rhymes: -iːs
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Ys
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /waɪz/
- Homophones: whys, why's, wise, Wise, wyes
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]Ys
Usage notes
[edit]- Opinions vary regarding the use of apostrophes when forming the plurals of letters of the alphabet. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ys f
- (mythology) Ys (sunken city)
- Synonym: Ker Ys
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1993 edition), Plon, →ISBN, chapter IX, page 89; translated 1973 by John and Doreen Weightman as Tristes Tropiques (2011 edition), Penguin Books, →ISBN:
- Rio est mordu par sa baie jusqu’au cœur; on débarque en plein centre, comme si l’autre moitié, nouvelle Ys, avait été déjà dévorée par les flots.
- The bay at Rio eats right into the heart of the city: you land in the centre, as if the other half, like the fabled town of Ys, had already been engulfed by waves.
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- mul:Metrology
- Symbols for SI units
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/iːs
- Rhymes:English/iːs/1 syllable
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Mythology
- English terms with homophones
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun forms
- English heteronyms
- en:Brittany
- en:History of France
- en:Mythological locations
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French terms with quotations
- fr:Brittany
- fr:History of France
- fr:Mythological locations