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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carnation

UK /kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/ · US /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms carnations

  1. noun originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
  2. noun other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
  3. noun The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
  4. noun A rosy pink colour
  5. noun (archaic, now especially heraldry) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
  6. noun A scarlet colour.
  7. adjective Of a rosy pink or red colour.
  8. adjective (archaic) Of a human flesh color.
  9. proper noun A city in King, Washington, United States.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States.

Synonyms

clove pink cottage pink Dianthus plumarius Dianthus caryophyllus gillyflower

Etymology

From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown. By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -ate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
  2. noun pl. (Paint.)

Etymology [F. carnation the flesh tints in a painting, It carnagione, fr. L. carnatio fleshiness, fr. caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “carnation”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details