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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mesa

/ˈmeɪ.sə/ noun, proper noun

Forms mesas

  1. noun A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. “A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.”
  2. noun (electronics) a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it “The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.”
  3. proper noun A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
  4. proper noun A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Mesa County, Colorado.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Adams County, Idaho.
  7. proper noun A minor city in Franklin County, Washington.
  8. proper noun A town in Mozambique.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

table

Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.

Webster’s 1913

  1. A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.]

Etymology [Sp.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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