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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customs

/ˈkʌs.təmz/ noun

Also a form of custom

  1. noun (in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods. “Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.”
  2. noun (in the singular or uncountable) The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods. “Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.”
  3. noun The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint. “They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.”
  4. noun The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.

Synonyms

customs duty custom impost

Etymology

Plural of custom. Perhaps influenced by or taken as a corruption of customhouse, from Middle English custome hous.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “customs”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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

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