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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lyra

/ˈlaɪ.ɹə/ noun, proper noun

Forms lyras lira

  1. noun (anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain.
  2. noun A vertically suspended hoop used in acrobatic performances.
  3. noun A bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire.
  4. noun A bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece.
  5. proper noun (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula.
  6. proper noun A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Etymology

So called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

From Ancient Greek λῠ́ρᾱ (lŭ́rā) or Modern Greek λύρα (lýra). Doublet of lira, Lyra, and lyre.

Borrowed from Latin Lyra/lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra, “a lyre; the constellation Lyra”). Doublet of lira, lyra, and lyre.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega.
  2. noun The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; --so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Etymology [L. lyra, Gr. Lyre.]

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