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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chaplet

/ˈt͡ʃæplət/ noun

Forms chaplets

  1. noun A garland or circlet for the head.
  2. noun A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
  3. noun (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
  4. noun (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads. “The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.”
  5. noun (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church. “People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.”
  6. noun (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
  7. noun A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
  8. noun A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
  9. noun A small chapel or shrine.

Synonyms

wreath garland coronal lei

Etymology

From Middle English chapelet, from Old French chapelet. Doublet of chapelet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
  2. noun A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
  3. noun A small chapel or shrine.
  4. verb To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers. R. Browning.

Etymology [F. chapelet, dim. of OF. chapel hat, garland, dim. fr. LL. cappa. See Cap, and cf. Chapelet, Chapeau.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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