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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habitual

UK /həˈbɪ.tʃʊ.əl/ · US /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/ adjective, noun

Forms habituals habituall

  1. adjective Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring. “Her habitual lying was the reason for my mistrust.”
  2. adjective Regular or usual. “Professor Franklein took his habitual seat at the conference table.”
  3. adjective Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly. “He’s a habitual chain-smoker.”
  4. adjective (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
  5. noun (colloquial) One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.
  6. noun (grammar) A construction representing something done habitually.

Synonyms

perennial repeating repetitious monotonous recurrent recurring repetitional repetitionary repetitive accustomed customary general average basic bog-standard common common as bums common as dirt common as muck common as pig tracks wonted

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Late Middle English habitual (“of one's inherent disposition”), from Medieval Latin habituālis (“customary; habitual”), from Latin habitus (“character; disposition; habit; physical or emotional condition; attire, dress”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); analysable as habit + -ual. Habitus is derived from habeō (“to have; to hold; to own; to possess”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”)) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Formed or acquired by habit or use. An habitual knowledge of certain rules and maxims. South.
  2. adjective According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin. It is the distinguishing mark of habitual piety to be grateful for the most common and ordinary blessings. Buckminster.

Etymology [Cf. F. habituel, LL. habituals. See Habit, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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