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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disjunct

/dɪsˈdʒʌŋkt/ adjective, noun

Forms disjuncts

  1. adjective Separate; discontinuous; not connected.
  2. adjective (botany) Occurring in widely separated geographic areas.
  3. noun The state of being disjointed; disjointedness; a disconnect.
  4. noun (botany) A species or population occurring at a distant or separate location, and separated from other members of the same group.
  5. noun (logic) One of multiple propositions, any of which, if true, confirm the validity of another proposition (a disjunction).
  6. noun (linguistics) Any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence.
  7. noun (linguistics) An adverbial that expresses the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the associated clause or sentence.
  8. noun (linguistics, rare) A conjunct of a disjunctive conjunction.

Synonyms

disjunctive sentence adverb conjunct isolated

Antonyms

conjunct conjunctive

Etymology

From dis- + Latin junctus (“joined”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Disjoined; separated. [R.]
  2. adjective Having the head, thorax, and abdomen separated by a deep constriction. Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

Etymology [L. disjunctus, p. p. of disjungere to disjoin. See Disjoin, and cf. Disjoint.]

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