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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

memorial

/məˈmɔːɹi.əl/ noun, adjective

Forms memorials

  1. noun (obsolete) Memory; recollection.
  2. noun Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
  3. noun A chronicle or memoir.
  4. noun (now rare) A note or memorandum.
  5. noun (chiefly Christianity) A service of remembrance or commemoration.
  6. noun (law) A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.
  7. adjective Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative. “a memorial building”
  8. adjective Contained in the memory. “a memorial possession”
  9. adjective (now rare) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Synonyms

commemoration remembrance monument

Etymology

From Late Latin memoriale, neuter of memorialis. By surface analysis, memory + -ial.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
  2. adjective Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession.
  3. noun Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument. Macaulay.
  4. noun A memorandum; a record. [Obs. or R.] Hayward.

Etymology [F. mémorial, L. memorialis, fr. memoria. See Memory.]

Etymology [Cf. F. mémorial.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “memorial” (best matches first).