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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exotic

UK /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/ · US /ɪɡˈzɑtɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms exotica exotics

  1. adjective Foreign, especially in an exciting way. “an exotic appearance”
  2. adjective Non-native to the ecosystem.
  3. adjective extraterrestial, alien “exotic materials”
  4. adjective (finance) Being or relating to an option with features that make it more complex than commonly traded options.
  5. adjective (gambling) Being or relating to various wagers, such as the trifecta, that involve betting on the finishing positions of multiple competitors across one or more races.
  6. adjective (veterinary medicine) Denoting or relating to any animal that is not a cat or dog, requiring specialised healthcare
  7. adjective (Of a pet) Unusual to keep or undomesticated.
  8. noun An organism that is exotic to an environment; an introduced species.
  9. noun A person not native to a particular area; a foreigner.
  10. noun An exotic dancer; a stripteaser.
  11. noun (physics) Any exotic particle. “Glueballs, theoretical particles composed only of gluons, are exotics.”

Synonyms

alien

Antonyms

native

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French exotique, from Latin exōticus, from Ancient Greek ἐξωτικός (exōtikós, “foreign”, literally “from the outside”), from ἐξω- (exō-, “outside”), from ἐξ (ex, “out of”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
  2. noun Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

Etymology [L. exoticus, Gr. exotique. See Exoteric.]

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

Sanskrit

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