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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proprietary

UK /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.ə.tə.ɹi/ · US /pɹəˈpɹaɪ.əˌtɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms proprietaries

  1. adjective Of or relating to property or ownership. “proprietary rights”
  2. adjective Owning something; having ownership. “the proprietary class”
  3. adjective Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret. “The continuous profitability of the company is based on its many proprietary products.”
  4. adjective Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization. “a proprietary extension to the HTML standard for Web page structure”
  5. adjective Privately owned. “a proprietary lake;   a proprietary chapel”
  6. adjective (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
  7. noun A proprietor or owner.
  8. noun A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
  9. noun The rights of a proprietor.
  10. noun A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
  11. noun (espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.

Synonyms

proprietorial proprietorship

Antonyms

nonproprietary open source

Etymology

From French propriétaire, from Latin proprietārius. By surface analysis, propriety + -ary. Compare with the Latin proprietas (“property”) and proprius (“ownership”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
  2. noun A body proprietors, taken collectively.
  3. adjective Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

Etymology [L. proprietarius: cf. F. propriétaire. See Propriety, and cf. Proprietor.]

Etymology [L. proprietarius.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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