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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

ionic

/aɪˈɒnɪk/ adjective, proper noun, noun

Forms Ionics Ionick

  1. adjective (chemistry) of, relating to, or containing ions
  2. adjective Synonym of Ionian; of or relating to Ionia or the Ionians
  3. adjective (architecture) of an order of classical Greek architecture whose distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes.
  4. adjective (printing, dated) Of or relating to a kind of heavy-faced type.
  5. proper noun A sub-dialect of the Attic-Ionic dialectal group of Ancient Greek consisting of Old Ionic and New Ionic.
  6. noun (poetry) A four-syllable metrical unit of light-light-heavy-heavy (‿ ‿ — —) that occurs in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry.

Synonyms

Ionian Attic Ionic dialect Classical Greek

Antonyms

nonionic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰωνικός (iōnikós, “related to Ionians”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital. Ionic dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia.
  3. noun (a) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, --that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, --that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
  4. noun The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.

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