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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ganglion

/ˈɡæŋ.ɡli.ən/ noun

Forms ganglia ganglions

  1. noun An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.
  2. noun Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.
  3. noun (transferred sense) A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
  4. noun (pathology) A benign cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule.

Synonyms

nucleus ganglion cyst

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.
  2. noun A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; --called also weeping sinew. Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.

Etymology [L. ganglion a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. ganglion.]

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