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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hereditary

UK /həˈɹɛdɪt(ə)ɹi/ · US /həˈɹɛdɪˌtɛɹi/ adjective, noun

Forms hereditaries

  1. adjective Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
  2. adjective Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death. “Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.”
  3. adjective Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank. “hereditary rulers”
  4. adjective Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes. “Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.”
  5. adjective (mathematics) Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
  6. adjective (graph theory) Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
  7. noun A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Synonyms

lineal inhereditary familial genetic inherited transmitted transmissible ancestral patrimonial

Antonyms

nonhereditary

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
  2. adjective Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

Etymology [L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F. héréditaire. See Heir.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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