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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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hiatus

/haɪˈeɪtəs/ noun

Forms hiatuses hiati

  1. noun A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
  2. noun An interruption, break, pause or absence. “The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.”
  3. noun An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
  4. noun (geology) A gap in geological strata.
  5. noun (anatomy) An opening in an organ. “Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.”
  6. noun (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.

Synonyms

break breather moratorium recess cessation demurral gap caesura halt halting interregnum interruption lapse pause respite resting stoppage stopping suspension reprieve abatement foramen

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An opening; an aperture; a gap; a chasm; esp., a defect in a manuscript, where some part is lost or effaced; a space where something is wanting; a break.
  2. noun The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables. Pope.

Etymology [L., fr. hiare, hiatum, to gape; akin to E. yawn. See Yawn.]

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

Sanskrit

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