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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geniculate

UK /dʒɪˈnɪk.jʊ.leɪt/ · US /d͡ʒəˈnɪk.jəˌleɪt/ adjective, verb

Forms geniculates geniculating geniculated

  1. adjective (anatomy, botany) Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee. “a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal”
  2. adjective Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
  3. adjective (anatomy) Relating to a geniculate nucleus.
  4. verb (obsolete, rare, transitive) To form joints or knots on.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

From Latin geniculātus (more at etymology 1), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.
  2. verb To form joints or knots on. [R.] Cockeram.

Etymology [L. geniculatus, fr. geniculum little knee, knot or joint, dim. of genu knee. See Knee.]

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