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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mobility

UK /mə(ʊ)ˈbɪlɪti/ · US /moʊˈbɪlɪti/ noun

Forms mobilities

  1. noun The ability to move; capacity for movement.
  2. noun (now chiefly literary) A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.
  3. noun (military) The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.
  4. noun (chiefly physics) The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.
  5. noun (chiefly sociology) The ability of people to move between different social levels or professional occupations.
  6. noun (UK, obsolete, slang, humorous) The mob; the common people or rabble.

Synonyms

mobileness

Antonyms

immobility

Etymology

From Middle French mobilité, and its source, Latin mōbilitās (“mobility”).

Blend of mob + nobility

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne.
  2. noun The mob; the lower classes. [Humorous] Dryden.

Etymology [L. mobilitas: cf. F. mobilité.]

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

Sanskrit

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