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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medial

/ˈmiː.di.əl/ adjective, noun

Forms medials

  1. adjective (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a mean or average. “medial allegation”
  2. adjective (anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ. “The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.”
  3. adjective (anatomy) Pertaining to the middle layer of a blood vessel, to its tunica media. “Mönckeberg medial sclerosis”
  4. adjective (entomology) Of or pertaining to the media and/or the areas of the wing next to it.
  5. adjective (phonetics, linguistics) (of a speech sound, or a character or sequence thereof) In the middle of a word.
  6. adjective (phonetics) (of a consonant) Central: produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
  7. adjective (linguistics) Closer to the addressee.
  8. noun Any of various things that occur in the middle.
  9. noun One or more letters that occur in the middle of a word.

Synonyms

median

Antonyms

lateral

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediālis (“middle”), from medius (“that is in the middle or midst”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
  2. noun See 2d Media.

Etymology [L. medialis, fr. medius middle: cf. F. médial. See Middle.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “medial”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details