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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ovate

UK /ˈəʊ.veɪt/ · US /ˈoʊ.veɪt/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms ovates ovating ovated

  1. adjective Shaped like an egg.
  2. adjective (botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.
  3. noun (archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
  4. noun An Irish bard.
  5. noun A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
  6. noun A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.
  7. verb (transitive) To give someone an ovation.
  8. verb (intransitive) To applaud enthusiastically.

Synonyms

egg-shaped ovoid elliptic elliptical oval oval-shaped oviform prolate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōvātus, from ōvum (“an egg”) + -ātus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Ultimately from a Celtic language, see Proto-Celtic *wātis.

Borrowed from Latin ovātus, perfect passive participle of ovō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
  2. adjective Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. Gray.

Etymology [L. ovatus, from ovum egg. See Oval.]

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