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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etymology

UK /ˌɛtɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/ · US /ˌɛtəˈmɑləd͡ʒi/ noun

Forms etymologies

  1. noun (uncountable, linguistics) The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
  2. noun (countable) The entire catalogue of meanings that a word, morpheme, or sign has carried throughout its history. “Although written the same, the words lead (the metal) and lead (the verb) have totally different etymologies.”
  3. noun (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.
  4. noun (countable) The direct origin of a name, as in who someone was named after.

Synonyms

derivation

Etymology

From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study or logic of”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; explanation”). By surface analysis, etymo- + -logy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of from and meaning.
  2. noun That pert of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.

Etymology [L.etymologia, Gr. étymologie. See Etymon, and -logy.]

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

Sanskrit

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