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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enucleate

/ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms enucleates enucleating enucleated

  1. verb (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
  2. verb (transitive, medicine) To extract (an object) intact from an enclosed space
  3. verb (archaic) To explain; to lay bare.
  4. adjective Enucleated, having no nucleus.
  5. noun (biology) A cell which has been enucleated

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēnucleātus, from ēnucleō (“to remove the kernel from”), from ē- + nucleus (“kernel”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
  2. verb To remove without cutting (as a tumor).

Etymology [L. enucleatus, p. p. of enucleare to enucleate; e out + nucleus kernel.]

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