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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equator

UK /ɪˈkweɪ.tə/ · US /ɪˈkweɪ.tɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms equators aequator æquator equatour

  1. noun (geography, often “the Equator”) An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
  2. noun (astronomy) A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on another reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
  3. noun The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles. “Slice the onion through the equator.”
  4. noun The celestial equator.
  5. proper noun (geography) Earth’s equator.

Etymology

From Late Latin (circulus) aequator (diei et noctis).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres.
  2. noun The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; --so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line. Equator of the sun or of a planet (Astron.), the great circle whose plane passes through through the center of the body, and is perpendicular to its axis of revolution.

Etymology [L. aequator one who equalizes: cf. F. équateur equator. See Equate.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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