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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ultima

/ˈʌltɪmə/ noun, proper noun

Forms ultimas

  1. noun (grammar, prosody, countable) The final syllable of a word.
  2. noun (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
  3. proper noun A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia
  4. proper noun The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
  5. proper noun Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).

Synonyms

DvommaDvol Baroque

Etymology

From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Most remote; furthest; final; last. Ultima ratio Etym: [L.], the last reason or argument; the last resort.
  2. noun The last syllable of a word.

Etymology [L., fem. ultimus last.]

Etymology [L., fem. of ultimus last.]

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