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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abutment

/əˈbʌt.mn̩t/ noun

Forms abutments

  1. noun The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
  2. noun (engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
  3. noun (engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
  4. noun (engineering) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
  5. noun Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
  6. noun The state of abutting.
  7. noun (architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
  8. noun (dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.

Etymology

First attested in 1644; engineering sense first attested in 1793. From Old French aboutement. Equivalent to abut + -ment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun State of abutting.
  2. noun That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as (a) (Arch.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. Gwilt.

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