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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calendar

UK /ˈkæl.ən.də/ · US /ˈkæl.ən.dɚ/ noun, verb

Forms calendars calendaring calendared kalendar calender

  1. noun Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. “The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.”
  2. noun A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information. “Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.”
  3. noun A list of planned events. “The club has a busy calendar this year.”
  4. noun An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule. “a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court”
  5. noun (US) An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)
  6. verb (law, transitive) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call. “The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date.”
  7. verb (transitive) To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

Synonyms

agenda schedule docket calends

Etymology

From Middle English kalender, from Old French calendier, from Latin calendarium (“account book”), from kalendae (“the first day of the month”), from kalō (“to announce solemnly, to call out (the sighting of the new moon)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-. Doublet of calendarium.
Displaced native Old English rīmbōc and ġerīmbōc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.
  2. noun A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter.
  3. verb To enter or write in a calendar; to register. Waterhouse.

Etymology [OE. kalender, calender, fr. L. kalendarium an interest or account book (cf. F. calendrier, OF. calendier) fr. L. calendue, kalendae, calends. See Calends.]

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

Sanskrit

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