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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abbey

/ˈæbi/ noun, proper noun

Forms abbeys abby

  1. noun The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
  2. noun A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. “From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks.”
  3. noun The church of a monastery.
  4. noun (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
  5. noun (Somerset, dialect) The abele or white poplar (Populus alba).
  6. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Abigail, from Hebrew.
  7. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.
  8. proper noun A British surname.
  9. proper noun (London) Westminster Abbey.
  10. proper noun (Scotland) The precincts of the Abbey of Holyrood.
  11. proper noun A hamlet in Dunkeswell parish, East Devon district, Devon, England, probably named for the local abbey (OS grid ref ST1410).
  12. proper noun A small village south-east of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland (Irish grid ref M 5043).
  13. proper noun A village west of Portumna, County Galway (Irish grid ref M 7305).

Synonyms

convent Abi Abby

Etymology

From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (“convent headed by an abbot”) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French abaïe, abbaïe, abeïe, abbeïe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbātia, from Classical Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbacy and Opatija. See abbot.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.
  2. noun The church of a monastery.

Etymology [OF. abaïe, F. abbaye, L. abbatia, fr. abbas abbot. See Abbot.]

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