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

“Ariel” is a form of

aerial

/ˈɛəɹiəl/ adjective, noun

Forms aerials

  1. adjective Living or taking place in the air. “The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.”
  2. adjective (literary or archaic) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
  3. adjective Positioned high up; elevated. “The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm.”
  4. adjective Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
  5. adjective Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
  6. adjective (aviation) Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft. “aerial photography”
  7. adjective (botany) Above the ground.
  8. noun (chiefly UK) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
  9. noun A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
  10. noun (gymnastics) A move that involves performing a full rotation while in the air, without touching any equipment such as a balance beam or panel mat with one's hands.
  11. noun (photography) An aerial photograph.
  12. noun (computer graphics) A highly-contrasting visual artifact in the form of a band or ring. “Lanczos3 for sharp results. May produce aerials. — Krita 5.2.2”

Synonyms

antenna air step acrobatic forward pass transmitting aerial aeriform airy aery ethereal

Etymology

From Latin āeri(us) + -al, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + -ιος (-ios). By surface analysis, aer- (“air”) + -ial.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton.
  2. adjective Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Etymology [L. aërius. See Air.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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