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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deceased

UK /dɪˈsiːst/ · US /diˈsist/ adjective, noun

Also a form of decease

Forms deceaseds

  1. adjective No longer alive; dead.
  2. adjective Belonging to the dead. “The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.”
  3. adjective (law) One who has died.
  4. adjective (hyperbolic) Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead. “You look so good, I'm deceased!”
  5. noun (euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”). “The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.”
  6. noun (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

Synonyms

asleep at peace at rest dead departed late gone blessed cadaverous clay-cold breathless resting cold decomposed defunct expired extinct fey good inanimate dead person dead soul deceased person decedent

Etymology

From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Passed away; dead; gone. The deceased, the dead person.

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

Sanskrit

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

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