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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earthly

/ˈəːθli/ adjective, noun, adverb

Forms earthlier earthliest earthlies

  1. adjective Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven or the heavens. “The Garden of Earthly Delights is full of earthly joys alongside grotesqueries, monstrosities, and torture.”
  2. adjective (obsolete) Made of earth; earthy.
  3. adjective (informal) Used in negative contructions for emphasis. “There is no earthly way, I mean no way on earth, that I will ever do that.”
  4. noun (collective or in the plural) That which is of the earth or earthly; a terrestrial being.
  5. noun (UK, colloquial) A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something).
  6. adverb in an earthly manner.

Synonyms

worldly worldy terrestrial material mundane sublunar sublunary profane temporal areligious civil irreligious laicist laicistic nonreligious secular unconsecrated unsanctified common impious

Antonyms

heavenly celestial otherworldly ethereal empyreal empyrean etheric transcendental sublime spiritual eternal blessed

Etymology

From Middle English erthely, erthlich, ierðlich, from Old English eorþlīċ, corresponding to earth + -ly. Cognate with Old Norse jarðligr (“earthly”).

By surface analysis, Earth + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.
  2. adjective Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
  3. adverb In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.

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

Sanskrit

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