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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lunar

UK /ˈluːnə/ · US /ˈlunɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms lunars

  1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon). “lunar observations  a lunar eclipse”
  2. adjective Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
  3. adjective Extremely high.
  4. adjective (chiefly historical) (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
  5. adjective (alchemy, chemistry, obsolete) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
  6. adjective (astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
  7. noun (anatomy) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.
  8. noun (nautical, navigation) An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.

Synonyms

lunarlike lunary moonish moonlike moonly moony selenian selenic intermedium lunar bone semilunar

Etymology

From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).

Equivalent to Luna + -ar.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
  2. adjective Resembling the moon; orbed. Dryden.
  3. noun A lunar distance.
  4. noun The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; --called also semilunar, and intermedium.

Etymology [L. lunaris, fr. luna the moon. See Luna, and cf. Lunary.]

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

Sanskrit

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