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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birthday

UK /ˈbɜːθ.deɪ/ · US /ˈbɝθˌdeɪ/ noun, verb

Forms birthdays birthdaying birthdayed birth-day birfday birthdaye

  1. noun The anniversary of the day on which someone is born. “When's your birthday? Mine's on April 1.”
  2. noun The anniversary of the day on which something is created.
  3. noun The date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birthdate or date of birth.
  4. noun A birthday party. “I'd like to invite you all to my birthday.”
  5. verb (intransitive, informal) To celebrate one's birthday.

Synonyms

natal day

Etymology

From Middle English birthdai, birtheday, from Old English ġebyrddæġ (“birthday”), influenced by Old Norse burðr, equivalent to birth + day. Compare Saterland Frisian Gebuursdai (“birthday”), Dutch geboortedag (“birthday”), Low German Geboortsdag (“birthday”), German Geburtstag (“birthday”), Norwegian bursdag, gebursdag (“birthday”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English nativitee (“birth, nativity, birthday”), from Old French nativité, nativited, from Latin nātīvitas.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
  2. noun The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

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

Sanskrit

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

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