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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concierge

UK /ˌkɒnsiˈɛːʒ/ · US /ˌkɑnsiˈɛɹʒ/ noun

Forms concierges

  1. noun An employee of a hotel who attends to the requirements and wishes of guests.
  2. noun (by extension, chiefly attributive) One who offers a bespoke level of service in any of various industries. “concierge banking (that is, private banking)    concierge medicine    concierge service”
  3. noun (healthcare) A nurse who provides support during fertility treatment.
  4. noun (often US) One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
  5. noun (except historical) A senior official in charge of a fortress, palace, etc.; also, a custodian of a house; a warden of a prison.
  6. noun Synonym of conciergerie (“the office of a concierge; also, the lodge or residence of a concierge”).

Synonyms

conciergerie

Etymology

Borrowed from French concierge (“caretaker; doorkeeper; lodge-keeper of a château”), from Old French conciarge, consierge, consirge, from Medieval Latin consergius; further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *cōnservius, from Latin cōnservus (“fellow servant; fellow slave”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”)) + servus (“servant; slave”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to guard; to take care of”) + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

Etymology [F.]

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