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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customary

UK /ˈkʌs.tə.m(ə.)ɹi/ · US /ˈkʌs.təˌmɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms customaries

  1. adjective In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage.
  2. adjective Holding or held by custom. “customary tenants”
  3. noun (law) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.

Synonyms

conventional habitual traditional halal homodox kosher orthodox by the book allowed natural official proper routine accustomed wonted

Etymology

From Middle English custumary, from Medieval Latin custumarius. By surface analysis, custom + -ary.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
  2. adjective Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
  3. noun A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.

Etymology [CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer.]

Etymology [OF. coustumier, F. coutumier.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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