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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endemic

/ɛnˈdɛm.ɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms endemics endemick

  1. adjective Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs. “The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.”
  2. adjective (especially of plants and animals) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places. “Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.”
  3. adjective (especially of diseases) Prevalent in a particular area or region, persistent within a population. “Malaria is endemic to the tropics.”
  4. noun An individual or species that is endemic to a region.
  5. noun A disease affecting a number of people simultaneously, so as to show a distinct connection with certain localities.

Synonyms

native indigenous precinctive endemic disease endemical autochthonal autochthonic autochthonous

Antonyms

alien introduced systemic epidemic ecdemic cosmopolitan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) + -ic. Possibly via Ancient Greek ἔνδημος (éndēmos, “among one's people, at home, native”) and/or French endémique. By surface analysis, en- + demic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
  2. noun An endemic disease.

Etymology [Gr. endémique.]

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