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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/æps/ noun

Forms apses apsides

  1. noun (architecture) The rounded east (liturgical east) end of a church that contains or is behind the altar. “Our private tour of the cathedral even allowed us to walk through the apse, which most tours don't.”
  2. noun (strictest sense) The interior portion of this section of the church building, excluding the ambulatory and any apse chapels.
  3. noun A semicircular projection from any building that is similar to a church's apse. “The college has an apse that once held a small chapel.”
  4. noun The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
  5. noun A reliquary: a case in which the relics of saints are kept.
  6. noun (obsolete or dialectal) An aspen tree.

Synonyms

apsis apside chancel presbytery sanctuary[Appendix:Glossary

Etymology

From Latin apsis, hapsis, from Ancient Greek ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch, vault”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to bind, join”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence: (b) The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
  2. noun A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.

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