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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mono

UK /ˈmɒn.əʊ/ · US /ˈmɑ.noʊ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms monos

  1. noun (slang, UK, Australia) A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding.
  2. noun (eating disorders) A diet where someone eats only one type of food. “plum mono”
  3. noun (informal, countable) Any fish of the family Monodactylidae.
  4. adjective (informal) Monaural or monophonic; having only a single audio channel. “Because many in the audience were very close to one of the speakers, the DJ decided to play the music in mono.”
  5. adjective (informal) Monoamorous, monogamous.
  6. noun (informal) A monogamous person.
  7. noun A member of a Native American people who traditionally live in the central and eastern Sierra Nevada, the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin in California.
  8. noun A Mono wind.
  9. proper noun The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
  10. proper noun A county in California, United States, see Mono County.
  11. proper noun An alkaline desert lake (Mono Lake) in this county, having a unique ecosystem.
  12. noun A member of an ethnic group from the Congo.
  13. proper noun The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
  14. proper noun A town in Ontario.
  15. proper noun An island of the Solomon Islands.
  16. proper noun A river in Togo.

Synonyms

wheelie infectious mononucleosis mononucleosis glandular fever kissing disease monophonic single-channel

Etymology

Shortenings, ultimately from the prefix mono- (“one, single”).

Clipping of monophonic.

Clipping of monoamorous.

Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seem to derive their name from the same common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).

Etymology [Sp.]

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