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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syntagma

/sɪnˈtæɡmə/ noun

Forms syntagmata syntagmas

  1. noun (linguistics) A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit. “The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters.”
  2. noun (semiotics) An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning. “To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.”
  3. noun (Ancient Greece) A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae). “The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen.”
  4. noun (biology, dated) An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits.
  5. noun (publishing) A treatise or compendium.

Synonyms

tagma syntagm

Etymology

From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “syntagma”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details