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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dorsal

UK /ˈdɔː.səl/ · US /ˈdɔɹ.səl/ adjective, noun

Forms dorsals dossal

  1. adjective (anatomy) Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand.
  2. adjective (linguistics, of a sound) Produced using the dorsum of the tongue.
  3. adjective (of a knife) Having only one sharp side.
  4. adjective (botany) Relating to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
  5. adjective (botany) Relating to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
  6. noun (art) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc.
  7. noun (zootomy, in snakes) Any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales.
  8. noun (linguistics) A sound produced using the dorsum of the tongue.

Synonyms

altar screen rood screen abaxial

Antonyms

ventral

Etymology

From Late Middle English dorsal/dorsale, borrowing from Medieval Latin dorsālis (“of or relating to the back”), from dorsum (“the back”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to dorsum + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; --opposed to ventral.
  2. adjective (a) Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
  3. noun A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.

Etymology [F. dorsal, LL. dorsalis, fr. L. dorsualis, fr. dorsum back; cf. Gr. Dorse, Dorsel, Dosel.]

Etymology [LL. dorsale, neut. fr. dorsalis. See Dorsal, a.]

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