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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mythology

UK /mɪˈθɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ · US /mɪˈθɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ noun

Forms mythologies

  1. noun (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
  2. noun (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
  3. noun (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
  4. noun The set of misconceptions and false attitudes that are held about something and contribute to its perception.
  5. noun (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.

Synonyms

godlore

Etymology

First attested as Middle English in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mȳthologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία (muthología, “legend”) μυθολογέω (muthologéō, “to tell tales”), from μυθολόγος (muthológos, “legend”), from μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + λέγω (légō, “to say”). By surface analysis, myth + -ology or mytho- + -logy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
  2. noun A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.

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

Sanskrit

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

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