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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thirteen

UK /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/ · US /ˌθɝtˈtin/ numeral, noun

Forms thirteens

  1. numeral The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three. “There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.”
  2. noun A group of thirteen items.

Synonyms

baker's dozen long dozen throtteen 13 XIII

Etymology

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten. Equivalent to three + -teen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.
  2. noun The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.
  3. noun A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.

Etymology [OE. threttene, AS. , . See Three, and Ten, and cf. Thirty.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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