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

eleventh

/ɪˈlɛv.ənθ/ adjective, noun

Forms elevenths

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number eleven.
  2. noun The person or thing in the eleventh position.
  3. noun One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
  4. noun (music) The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.

Synonyms

11th XIth XI

Etymology

From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as ellefte, enlefte, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.
  2. adjective Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.
  3. noun The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.
  4. noun The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

Etymology [Cf. AS. endlyfta. See Eleven.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 59 Sanskrit matches →