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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honorary

/ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms honoraries honourary

  1. adjective Given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment. “honorary degree; honorary citizen”
  2. adjective Voluntary.
  3. adjective Unofficial; practically. Describes the holder of an unofficial position or title that is assigned as a special honor rather than by normal channels. “Megsie is an honorary employee because she helps other customers while she shops here.”
  4. noun A person who holds an honorary appointment.
  5. noun (US) A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.
  6. noun An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value.

Etymology

From honor + -ary, modelled after French honoraire, from Latin honōrārius.

From Latin honōrārium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.
  2. noun An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.
  3. adjective Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.
  4. adjective Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison.

Etymology [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a.]

Etymology [L. honorarius, fr. honor honor: cf. F. honoraire.]

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

Sanskrit

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