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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caste

UK /kɑːst/ · US /kæst/ noun

Forms castes

  1. noun Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
  2. noun A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  3. noun (uncountable) The division of society into castes; the caste system.
  4. noun (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony. “In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.”

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), which the OED derives from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”), Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
  2. noun A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

Etymology [Pg. casta race, lineage, fr. L. castus pure, chaste: cf. F. caste, of same origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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