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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member

UK /ˈmɛm.bə/ · US /ˈmɛm.bɚ/ noun

Forms members membering membered membre 'member

  1. noun One who belongs to a group.
  2. noun A part of a whole. “The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.”
  3. noun Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  4. noun (euphemistic) The penis.
  5. noun (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
  6. noun (set theory) An element of a set.
  7. noun (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
  8. noun A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.

Synonyms

integrant limb lith pintle tarse virile member premise premiss element fellow member extremity appendage penis phallus

Antonyms

nonmember

Etymology

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.
Coexists with native limb, from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”). Mostly displaced lith (“limb, joint, member”), from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”), which still survives in British dialect.

Clipping of remember (by apheresis).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. [Obs.]
  2. noun A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  3. noun Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as: (a) A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.

Etymology [See Remember.]

Etymology [OE. membre, F. membre, fr. L. membrum; cf. Goth. mimz flesh, Skr. mamsa.]

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

Sanskrit

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