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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Omega

UK /ˈəʊ.mɪ.ɡə/ · US /oʊˈmeɪ.ɡə/ noun, adjective, adverb

Forms Omegas omegala

  1. noun The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.
  2. noun (often capitalized) The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence. “alpha and omega”
  3. noun (physics) Angular velocity; symbol: ω.
  4. noun (set theory) A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.
  5. noun (slang) An omega male.
  6. noun (finance) The percentage change in an option value divided by the percentage change in the underlying asset's price.
  7. noun (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a submissive secondary sex driven by biology, magic, or other means to bond with an alpha, with males of this type often being able to get pregnant.
  8. adjective (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimate; of the highest degree. Massive, ineffable. “Omega props, dude.”
  9. adverb (slang, largely prepositive) Ultimately, most, supremely. “Whatever your plan is, I just think this idea's omega stupid. Ain't you got something better?”

Synonyms

elasticity lambda Z

Etymology

From Middle English, from Ancient Greek ὦ μέγα (ô méga), meaning “great ω” (omega is a long vowel in Ancient Greek).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
  2. noun The last; the end; hence, death.

Etymology [NL., fr. Gr. Mickle.]

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