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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coarctate

UK /kəʊˈɑːk.teɪt/ · US /koʊˈɑɹkˌteɪt/ adjective, verb

Forms coarctates coarctating coarctated

  1. adjective (medicine) Pressed close together, constricted, narrowed, compressed.
  2. adjective (entomology) (of the pupa of certain flies) Enclosed in a rigid case formed by the larval cuticle or puparium.
  3. verb (obsolete) To press together; to crowd.
  4. verb (obsolete) To restrain; to confine.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coarctātus, perfect participle of coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”), from co- (“being or bringing together, co-”) + arctō (“to draw or press close together”).

From the above adjective, for more see etymology at -ate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
  2. verb To restrain; to confine. [Obs.] Ayliffe.
  3. adjective Pressed together; closely connected; --applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.

Etymology [See Coarctate, a.]

Etymology [L. coarctatus, p. p. of coarctare to press together; co- + arctare to press together, from arctus, p. p. See Arctation.]

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