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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polity

UK /ˈpɒl.ɪ.ti/ · US /ˈpɑ.lə.ti/ noun

Forms polities

  1. noun (politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion. “Church polity was a topic of fierce dispute in 17th-century Britain.”
  2. noun (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby. “New polities emerged in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.”

Synonyms

civil order

Etymology

From Middle French politie, from Latin polītīa, from Ancient Greek πολιτεία (politeía, “polity, policy, the state”). Doublet of police, policy, and polis (“police”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole. Blackstone.
  2. noun Hence: The form or constitution by which any institution is organized; the recognized principles which lie at the foundation of any human institution.

Etymology [L. politia, Gr. politie. See 1st Policy, Police.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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