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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personable

/ˈpɜɹs(ə)nəb(ə)l/ adjective

Forms parsonable personible

  1. adjective Of a person: having a pleasing appearance; attractive; handsome.
  2. adjective Of a person: having a pleasant manner; amiable, friendly.
  3. adjective (rare) Synonym of personal (“done in person, without an intermediary”).
  4. adjective (law) Being a legal person and thus able to maintain a plea in court, or to hold some property or right.

Synonyms

good-looking attractive beauteous beautifool beautiful beautimous bona vardering bonnie breathtaking captivating comely cute divine esculent exquisite fair fetching fine-looking good enough to eat handsome

Antonyms

unattractive unpersonable bad beat butters butt-ugly clapped coyote ugly deform fuckfaced fugly hideous

Etymology

From Late Middle English personable, personabil (“having a pleasing appearance, handsome”), and then from both of the following:
* For sense 1 (“having a pleasing appearance”) and sense 2 (“having a pleasant manner”) (these senses are not found in Old French or Medieval Latin), probably from person, personne, persoun (“individual, person”) + -āble (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’ forming adjectives).
* For sense 3.1 (“synonym of personal”) and sense 3.2 (“being a legal person”), from Middle French personable and Old French personable, and from their etymon Medieval Latin personābilis (“personal”), possibly from Medieval Latin persōna (“person”) + Latin -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’).
By surface analysis, person + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
  2. adjective (a) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. Cowell.

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