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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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animé

/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/ noun

Forms animes

  1. noun The resin of the courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril), used in varnishes.
  2. noun (countable) An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
  3. noun (uncountable) An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries. “I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.”
  4. noun (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed) An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.

Synonyms

courbaril Japanimation Japanime Zanzibar copal gum anime

Etymology

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly from the insects entrapped in it. Doublet of animate.

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.

From the addition of an accent to anime to denote its pronunciation, or possibly through conflation with the above etymology.

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”) (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of a different tincture from the animal itself; --said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.
  2. noun A resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenæa courbaril), and much used by varnish makers. Ure.

Etymology [F., animated.]

Etymology [F. animé animated (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.]

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