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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pyrene

/paɪˈɹiːni/ noun, proper noun

Forms pyrenes

  1. noun (chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar
  2. proper noun (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A daughter of King Bebryx who was loved or violated by Heracles; after fleeing into the wilderness and dying, she was buried by him, and the Pyrenees were said to be named after her.
  3. proper noun (obsolete, with “the”) The Pyrenees.

Etymology

From pyr- + -ene.

From Ancient Greek πῡρήν (pūrḗn, “fruit-stone”).

Borrowed from Latin Pȳrēnē, from Ancient Greek Πυρήνη (Purḗnē).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the less volatile hydrocarbons of coal tar, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C16H10.
  2. noun Same as Pyrena.

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