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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declination

/ˌdɛklɪˈneɪʃən/ noun

Forms declinations

  1. noun At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
  2. noun (astronomy) At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
  3. noun A refusal.
  4. noun (linguistics, prosody) The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.
  5. noun (grammar, obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Declension.
  6. noun (archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination. “declination of the head”
  7. noun (archaic) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
  8. noun (archaic) Deviation.

Synonyms

magnetic declination δ nonassent denial rejection abnegation turndown disapproval dissension nonapproval nonconsent prohibition refusal renunciation repudiation unapproval unconsent decline descent declivity fall declension downslope celestial latitude dec regrets

Etymology

From Middle English declinacioun, borrowed from Middle French declination, from Latin declinatio. Doublet of declension.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
  2. noun The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. "The declination of monarchy." Bacon.

Etymology [L. declinatio a bending aside, an avoiding: cf. F. déclination a decadence. See Declension.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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