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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tribunal

UK /tɹaɪˈbjuːnəl/ · US /tɹaɪˈbjunəl/ noun

Forms tribunals

  1. noun (law) An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
  2. noun (Philippines, historical) A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.

Synonyms

court judicatory court of justice court of law judicature

Etymology

From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
  2. noun Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

Etymology [L. tribunal, fr. tribunus a tribune who administered justice: cf. F. tribunal. See Tribune.]

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

Sanskrit

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