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

minim

/ˈmɪ.nɪm/ noun

Forms minims Minimi minom minum

  1. noun (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. noun A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
  3. noun A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. noun Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like. “the minims of existence”
  5. noun (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. noun A little man or being; a dwarf.
  7. noun A small fish; a minnow.
  8. noun A short poetical encomium.
  9. noun A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.

Synonyms

half note

Etymology

Borrowed from French minime.

See minimum (“least”); so called to humble them even below the Franciscans, or "friars minor".

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; --applied to animalcula; and the like.
  2. noun The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
  3. adjective Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.

Etymology [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf. Minimum.]

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

Sanskrit

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