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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periodic

UK /ˌpɪɹiˈɒdɪk/ · US /ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪk/ adjective

  1. adjective Relative to a period or periods.
  2. adjective Having repeated cycles.
  3. adjective Occurring at regular intervals.
  4. adjective Periodical.
  5. adjective (astronomy) Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.
  6. adjective (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) For which any return to it must occur in multiples of k time steps, for some k>1.
  7. adjective (rhetoric) Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences.
  8. adjective Relating to the highest oxidation state of iodine; of or derived from a periodic acid.

Synonyms

cyclic cyclical periodical regular occasional

Antonyms

non-periodic aperiodic acyclical irregular noncyclic noncyclical unperiodic

Etymology

From French périodique, from Medieval Latin periodicus (“cyclical”), from Latin periodus (“complete sentence, period, circuit”), from Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos, “cycle, period of time”). By surface analysis, period + -ic.

From per- + iodic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
  3. adjective Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.

Etymology [Pref. per- + iodic.]

Etymology [L. periodicus, Gr. périodique.]

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

Sanskrit

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