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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medieval

UK /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/ · US /mɪdˈi.vəl/ adjective, noun

Forms medievals mediaeval mediæval

  1. adjective Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
  2. adjective Archaic.
  3. adjective Brutal.
  4. noun Someone living in the Middle Ages.
  5. noun A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context). “Thank God for modern remedies: the medievals were often useless or even harmful.”

Synonyms

mediaeval gothic chivalric knightly

Etymology

From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Same as Medi, Medi, etc.

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