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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frontier

/ˈfɹʌntɪə/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms frontiers frontiering frontiered

  1. noun The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region. “the frontier of civilization”
  2. noun The most advanced or recent version of something; the leading edge. “the frontier of solid state electronics”
  3. noun (obsolete) An outwork of a fortification.
  4. verb (intransitive) To live as pioneers on frontier territory.
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To place on the frontier.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Woodbridge Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota, located on the Canadian border.
  8. proper noun A minor city in Cass County, North Dakota.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Wyoming.
  10. proper noun A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  11. proper noun A rural municipality on the US border in south-west Saskatchewan, which includes the village; in full, the Rural Municipality of Frontier No. 19.

Synonyms

march marches border marchland borderland vanguard state of the art

Etymology

From Middle English frounter, from Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
  2. noun An outwork. [Obs.]
  3. adjective Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
  4. adjective Of or relating to a frontier. "Frontier experience." W. Irving.

Etymology [F. frontière, LL. frontaria. See Front.]

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

Sanskrit

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