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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commemoration

/kəˌmɛməˈɹeɪʃən/ noun

Forms commemorations

  1. noun The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event. “commemoration ceremony”
  2. noun That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
  3. noun (religion) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead.
  4. noun (UK) The great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.

Synonyms

memorialization memorialisation memorial remembrance

Etymology

First attested in 1384, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English commemoracioun, from Old French commemoration (French commémoration), from Latin commemorātiō. By surface analysis, commemorate + -ion

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event.
  2. noun Whatever serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.

Etymology [L. commemoratio.]

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

Sanskrit

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