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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accommodation

UK /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ · US /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms accommodations accomodation

  1. noun (UK, Australia, a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc. “I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.”
  2. noun (countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
  3. noun (countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
  4. noun (countable, physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
  5. noun (countable, medicine) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
  6. noun (countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  7. noun (countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
  8. noun (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

Synonyms

housing adjustment fitting

Etymology

From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; --followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.
  2. noun Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Etymology [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]

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

Sanskrit

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