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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vestiary

UK /ˈvɛstɪəɹi/ · US /ˈvɛs.tiˌɛɹi/ noun, adjective

Forms vestiaries

  1. noun (countable) A dressing room or storeroom for clothes, especially in a church or other religious house.
  2. noun (rare, uncountable) Clothing; garments.
  3. adjective Pertaining to clothes or clothing.

Synonyms

sacristy vestry vestment sartorial

Etymology

From Old French vestiarie, from Latin vestiarium, from vestis (“clothing”). Doublet of vestry.

From Latin vestiarius, from vestis as Etymology 1, above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wardrobe; a robing room; a vestry. Fuller.
  2. adjective Pertaining to clothes, or vestments.

Etymology [L. vestiarium. See Vestry.]

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