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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jovian

UK /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vi.ən/ · US /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.vi.ən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Jovians

  1. adjective (astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.
  2. adjective (Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.
  3. noun (chiefly science fiction) An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.
  4. proper noun Flavius Jovianus Augustus (331–364), a Roman emperor.
  5. proper noun A male given name from Latin

Synonyms

Jovial Zeusian Jupiterian

Etymology

From Latin Iovis (“Jove, Jupiter”) + -an, analysable as Jove + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Zeusian.

From the emperor’s name, Latin Ioviānus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet).

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