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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ancestry

/ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/ noun

Forms ancestries ancestrie auncestrie auncestry

  1. noun The state of being ancestors.
  2. noun Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
  3. noun A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended. “I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.”

Synonyms

lineage stock provenance parentage descent line line of descent bloodline blood line blood pedigree origin stemma derivation filiation

Etymology

From Middle English auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
  2. noun A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Etymology [Cf. OF. ancesserie. See Ancestor.]

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

Sanskrit

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