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In Greek mythology, Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Ἰώ) was one of the mortal lovers of Zeus.An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings and heroes, such as Perseus, Cadmus, Heracles, Minos, Lynceus, Cepheus, and Danaus.
Io (mythology), daughter of Inachus in Greek mythology, and lover of Zeus who was turned into a cow; Io, an alternate spelling of the nereid Ino, later known as Leukothea, who in the Odyssey gave Odysseus a veil that allowed him to breathe underwater; Io Matua Kore, in some Māori traditions the supreme god
On the other hand, the IPA (being designed to represent sounds from any language in the world) is not as intuitive for those chiefly familiar with English orthography, for whom this respelling system is likely to be easier for English words and names. So, while the IPA is the required form of representing pronunciation, respelling remains optional.
Io (Church Slavonic: Ιω, Їѡ and Иѡ, also Iωан and Iωнь; Romanian Cyrillic: Iѡ; Greek: Ίω) is the contraction of a title used mainly by the royalty (hospodars or voivodes) in Moldavia and Wallachia, preceding their names and the complete list of titles.
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Pronunciation: IPA: Created by: ... The name comes from the Esperanto word ido, meaning "offspring", [4] since the language is a "descendant" of Esperanto. After its ...
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The pronunciation of vowels in Irish is mostly predictable from the following rules: Unstressed short vowels are generally reduced to /ə/. e is silent before a broad vowel. i is silent before u, ú and after a vowel (except sometimes in ei, oi, ui ). io, oi, ui have multiple pronunciations that depend on adjacent consonants.