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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novelty

UK /ˈnɒvəlti/ · US /ˈnɑvəlti/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms novelties

  1. noun The state of being new or novel; newness.
  2. noun A new product; an innovation.
  3. noun A small mass-produced trinket.
  4. noun In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
  5. noun (chess) An opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).
  6. adjective In the design of a common household item, often impractically large, and meant primarily for display rather than functional use. “My novelty calculator works fine but it hurts my hands to press the keys.”
  7. proper noun A village in Missouri.

Synonyms

freshness knickknack bangle bauble gaud gewgaw fallal trinket

Etymology

From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus. By surface analysis, novel + -ty.

Named in the 1850s after the novelty goods sold by a local merchant.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
  2. noun Something novel; a new or strange thing.

Etymology [OF. novelté, F. nouveauté, L. novellitas.]

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

Sanskrit

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