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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outer

UK /ˈaʊtə/ · US /ˈaʊtɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms outermore outermost outmost outers

  1. adjective Outside; external.
  2. adjective Farther from the centre of the inside.
  3. noun An outer part.
  4. noun (sports) An uncovered section of the seating at a stadium or sportsground.
  5. noun (military, firearms) The fourth circle on a target, outside the inner and magpie.
  6. noun A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
  7. noun (retail) The smallest single unit sold by wholesalers to retailers, usually one retail display box. “We ordered two cartons with twelve outers in each.”
  8. noun Someone who admits to something publicly.
  9. noun Someone who outs another.
  10. noun One who puts out, ousts, or expels.
  11. noun An ouster; dispossession.
  12. noun (UK politics) One who supports leaving the European Union.

Synonyms

Brexiter informant

Antonyms

inner

Etymology

From Middle English outre, outer, outter, uttre, from Old English ūtre, ūtera, ūterra (“outer”), equivalent to out + -er. Compare German äußere (“outer”), Danish ydre (“outer”), Swedish yttre (“outer”), Icelandic ytri (“outer”). Piecewise doublet of utter.

out (verb) + -er (“agent suffix”)

From out (adjective) + -er (“comparative suffix”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; --opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world. Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter) barristers; --so called because in court they occupy a place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.
  2. noun One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession. [R.]

Etymology [AS. , compar. of , adv., out. See Out, Utter, a.]

Etymology [From Out, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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