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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family

/ˈfæm(ɪ)li/ noun, adjective

Forms families

  1. noun A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family. “Our family lives in town.”
  2. noun (collective) A group of related animals, usually a mother and offspring, a mating pair or larger lineages in some species.
  3. noun An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  4. noun A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children. “The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.”
  5. noun (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively. “I have a lot of family in Australia.”
  6. noun A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. “crime family, Mafia family”
  7. noun (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
  8. noun (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
  9. adjective Suitable for children and adults. “It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.”
  10. adjective (gay slang) Homosexual. “I knew he was family when I first met him.”

Synonyms

familia language family flesh and blood kin kinfolk fam class household house home menage family unit category family line folk kinsfolk sept phratry kinsperson syndicate crime syndicate mob fellowship

Etymology

From Late Middle English famylye, from Latin familia (“a household”). Displaced native Old English hīred and hād. Doublet of familia.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
  2. noun The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.

Etymology [L. familia, fr. famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, cf. faamat he dwells, Skr. dhaman house, fr. dhato set, make, do: cf. F. famille. Cf. Do, v. t., Doom, Fact, Feat.]

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

Sanskrit

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