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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

eighth

/eɪtθ/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms eighths eighthing eighthed eight eightth

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number eight.
  2. noun The person or thing in the eighth position.
  3. noun One of eight equal parts of a whole. “Two bits equals two eighths of a dollar.”
  4. noun (slang) An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs.
  5. noun An interval by doubling in pitch frequency.
  6. verb (transitive) To divide by eight.

Synonyms

8th VIIIth VIII eighth one ⅛ half-quarter henry ⅛ oz octave one-eighth

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English eightethe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next in order after the seventh.
  2. adjective Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing. Eighth note (Mus.), the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.
  3. noun The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
  4. noun The interval of an octave.

Etymology [AS. eahto.]

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

Sanskrit

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