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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trigon

/ˈtɹaɪɡɒn/ noun

Forms trigons

  1. noun (countable, geometry, rare) A triangle.
  2. noun (countable, historical, music) An ancient triangular harp of Oriental origin which had four strings and was often used for banquet music. Also called sabbeka, sackbut, sambuca.
  3. noun (countable, astrology) A division consisting of three star signs. “The Cancer trigon is composed of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces”
  4. noun (countable, astrology) A trine; an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
  5. noun (uncountable, historical) An old ball game played by three people standing in a triangular formation. (See Wikipedia's entry for the game)
  6. noun (countable, zoology) The cusp (cutting region) of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part.

Synonyms

triangle trilateral triplicity

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρίγωνον (trígōnon, “triangle”), neuter substantive of τρίγωνος (trígōnos, “three-sided”), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + γωνία (gōnía, “bend, angle”). Equivalent to tri- + -gon. Doublet of trigone and trigonon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A figure having three angles; a triangle.
  2. noun (a) A division consisting of three signs.
  3. noun The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid.

Etymology [L. trigonum, Gr. Tri-) + trigone.]

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