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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doublet

/ˈdʌblət/ noun

Forms doublets doubtlet

  1. noun A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
  2. noun (linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English). See also Appendix:Glossary#doublet.
  3. noun (literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
  4. noun (lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
  5. noun (printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
  6. noun (quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
  7. noun (computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
  8. noun (botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
  9. noun A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.

Synonyms

duet dyad

Etymology

From Middle English doublet, a borrowing from Old French doublet, from double, duble, doble + -et. Equivalent to double + -et (diminutive suffix)

From Italian giubbetta, from giubba, from Arabic جبة (“to en-wrap”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
  2. noun A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

Etymology [In sense 3, OF. doublet; in sense 4, F. doublet, dim. of double double. See Double, a.]

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