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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castellated

/ˈkastəleɪtɪd/ adjective

  1. adjective Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).
  2. adjective (engineering) Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
  3. adjective Castled: having or furnished with castles.
  4. adjective (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Synonym of enclosed, when used for fountains, cisterns, &c.

Synonyms

crenellated enclosed when used for fountains cisterns &c embattled battlemented castled

Etymology

From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”) + -ed (forming past participles). Equivalent to the past participle of castellate but attested earlier than other uses of the verb.

From Medieval Latin castellum (“cistern”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated.
  2. adjective Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.

Etymology [LL. castellatus, fr. castellare. See Castle.]

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