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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ministry

/ˈmɪnɪstɹi/ noun

Forms ministries

  1. noun A government department at the administrative level, normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity. “She works for the ministry of finance.”
  2. noun The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister) “The premier offered his last ministry's resignation to the monarch, and is asked to form a new one in accordance with the election results.”
  3. noun A ministration.
  4. noun The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
  5. noun (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
  6. noun (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature. “the present ministry of the Holy Spirit”

Etymology

From Middle English mynisterie, borrowed from Old French menistere, in turn borrowed itself from Latin ministerium; equivalent to minister + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of ministering; ministration; service. "With tender ministry." Thomson.
  2. noun Hence: Agency; instrumentality.

Etymology [L. ministerium. See Minister, n., and cf. Mystery a trade.]

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

Sanskrit

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