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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enclosure

UK /ɪnˈkləʊʒə/ · US /ɛnˈkloʊʒəɹ/ noun

Forms enclosures inclosure

  1. noun (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package. “There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package. “The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.”
  3. noun (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers. “He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.”
  4. noun (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier. “The enclosure of public land is against the law.”
  5. noun (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
  6. noun (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership. “Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.”
  7. noun (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

Synonyms

enclosing envelopment inclosure natural enclosure

Etymology

From Middle English enclosure, from Old French enclosure, from enclore, from Latin inclūdere, inclūdō, from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Alike to inclusion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Inclosure. See Inclosure.

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

Sanskrit

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

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