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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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grail

/ɡɹeɪl/ noun

Forms grails

  1. noun The Holy Grail.
  2. noun Something eagerly sought or quested for. “Becoming an astronaut was his grail.”
  3. noun A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
  4. noun (poetic) Small particles of earth; gravel.
  5. noun One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Synonyms

Holy Grail Sangraal

Etymology

From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).

From Middle English grayel, from Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.

Uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.

Compare Old French graite slender.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
  2. noun A broad, open dish; a chalice; --only used of the Holy Grail.
  3. noun Small particles of earth; gravel. [Obs.]
  4. noun One of the small feathers of a hawk.

Etymology [OF. greel, LL. gradale. See Gradual, n.]

Etymology [OF. graal, greal, greet, F. graal, gral, LL. gradalis, gradale, prob. derived fr. L. crater bowl, mixing vessel, Gr. krath`r. See Crater.]

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