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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accessory

/əkˈsɛs.(ə.)ɹi/ adjective, noun

Also a form of accessary

Forms accessories accessary

  1. adjective Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory. “accessory garments”
  2. adjective (law) Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal. “Her actions were clearly accessory because they helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.”
  3. adjective Present in a minor amount, and not essential. “accessory mineral”
  4. adjective (medicine, biology) Supernumerary and generally nonfunctional. “She had an accessory finger on one hand.”
  5. noun Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment. “the accessories of a mobile phone”
  6. noun (fashion) An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
  7. noun (law) A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator. “She was an accessory to the murder because she helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.”
  8. noun (art) Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.

Synonyms

accompanying contributory auxiliary subsidiary subservient additional acceding accompaniment abettor accomplice ally coadjutor accessary addition attachment supplement accoutrement accouterment appurtenance add-on adjunct ancillary adjuvant appurtenant

Etymology

From Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

From Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
  2. noun That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.
  3. noun Same as Accessary, n.

Etymology [L. accessorius. See Access, and cf. Accessary.]

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

Sanskrit

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