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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caveat

UK /ˈkævɪæt/ · US /ˈkæviɑt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms caveats caveating caveated

  1. noun A warning. “There is at least one caveat in cultivation: you’ll have to stick to only one discipline, such as that according to Bhaiṣajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha.”
  2. noun A qualification or exemption. “He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.”
  3. noun (law) A formal objection.
  4. noun (law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
  5. noun (law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
  6. verb (transitive, regarded by some as nonstandard) To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
  7. verb (transitive, law) To formally object to something.
  8. verb (transitive, law, specifically) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
  9. verb (transitive, law, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To warn or caution against some event.
  11. proper noun A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

stipulation proviso condition caution

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he/she/it beware”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“to beware of”). Doublet of show, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.
  2. noun A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

Etymology [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.]

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