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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dexter

UK /ˈdɛks.tə/ · US /ˈdɛks.tɝ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms dexters Dyster

  1. adjective (archaic outside heraldry) Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)
  2. noun (archaic outside heraldry) The right side (of a building, an equation, a heraldic shield [from the wearer's perspective], etc).
  3. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a female dyer.
  4. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
  5. proper noun A town in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.
  6. proper noun A village in the town of Brownville, Jefferson County, New York, United States, named after Simon Newton Dexter.
  7. proper noun A census-designated place in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
  8. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  9. noun One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build.
  10. noun A serial killer who only commits crimes against worthy targets.

Antonyms

sinister

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dexter (“right”).

Variant of Dyster. Also partially from Latin dexter (“right (handed)”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left.
  2. adjective On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. Dexter chief, or Dexter point (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. -- Dexter base, a point in the dexter lower part or base of the shield, as B in the cut.

Etymology [L.,; akin to Gr. dakshi (cf. daksh to be strong, suit); Goth. taihswa, OHG. zeso. Cf. Dexterous.]

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