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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anal

/ˈeɪ̯nəl/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms anals analing analling analed analled

  1. adjective (not comparable) Of, related to, intended for or involving the anus. [from 18th c.] “anal thermometer”
  2. adjective (psychoanalysis) Of the stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is alleged to be concentrated on the anal region. [from 20th c.]
  3. adjective (psychology, also informal, mildly vulgar) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from 20th c.] “Please don't touch his furniture, as he can get very anal about things like that.”
  4. adjective (informal, vulgar) Of tasks, questions, subject matter, etc., obsessively fussy or precise. “This questionnaire goes into the most ridiculous amount of detail. It's totally anal.”
  5. adjective (entomology) Of a vein, proximate to the thorax.
  6. noun (countable) Any of the anal scales of a reptile.
  7. noun (uncountable, informal) Anal sex. “In the right mood, I'll accept anal.”
  8. verb (transitive, slang, rare, chiefly in pornography) To penetrate anally. “The man with the small cock analed the hot chick.”
  9. proper noun An ethnic group found in Manipur in India, and in Burma/Myanmar, closely related to the Kuki people.
  10. proper noun The Northern Kukish (Sino-Tibetan) language spoken by these people, sometimes called Namfau after the two largest villages it is spoken in.
  11. noun An individual member of that ethnic group.

Synonyms

fussy pernickety picky anal-retentive anal retentive

Antonyms

oral

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ānālis. By surface analysis, anus + -al.
Psychological sense shortened from anal-retentive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.

Etymology [From Anus.]

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