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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tardy

UK /ˈtɑːdi/ · US /ˈtɑɹdi/ adjective, noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tardier tardiest tardies tardying tardied Tardys

  1. adjective Late; overdue or delayed. “He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.”
  2. adjective Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
  3. adjective Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull. “His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.”
  4. adjective (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
  5. adjective (obsolete) Criminal; guilty.
  6. noun (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. “The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.”
  7. noun (US) An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.
  8. verb (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.
  9. verb (rare, intransitive) To dawdle.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

belated delayed late

Etymology

From an earlier tardive, from French tardif, from Late Latin tardīvus, from Latin tardus (“slow”, “sluggish”), of obscure origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
  2. adjective Not being inseason; late; dilatory; --opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot.
  3. verb To make tardy. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [F. tardif, fr. (assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.]

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

Sanskrit

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