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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labile

/ˈleɪ.baɪl/ adjective

  1. adjective Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
  2. adjective Apt or likely to change.
  3. adjective (chemistry) Of a compound or bond, kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). “Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.”
  4. adjective (linguistics) Of a verb, able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.

Synonyms

unstable ergative ambivalent diffused

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French labile, borrowed from Latin lābilis (“slipping, transitent”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [Obs.] Cheyne.

Etymology [L. labilis apt to slip, fr. labi to slip.]

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