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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suffix

/ˈsʌfɪks/ noun, verb

Forms suffixes suffixing suffixed

  1. noun (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning. “The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable".”
  2. noun (mathematics) A subscript.
  3. noun (computing) A final segment of a string of characters. “The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".”
  4. verb (transitive, with to) To append (something) to the end of something else.
  5. verb (transitive, with with) To cause (something) to be appended with something else at its end.
  6. verb (intransitive) To treat or use as a suffix.

Synonyms

affix postfix

Antonyms

prefix

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suffīxus (“suffix”), from sub- (“under”) + fīxus (perfect passive participle of fīgere (“to fasten, fix”)), equivalent to sub- + -fix.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
  2. noun A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
  3. verb To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.

Etymology [L. suffixus, p.p. of suffigere to fasten on, to affix; sub under + figere to fix: cf. F. suffixe. See Fix.]

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

Sanskrit

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