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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inflection

/ɪnˈflɛkʃən/ noun

Forms inflections inflexion

  1. noun (grammar, uncountable) The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby words take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features. “In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.”
  2. noun (countable) Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given word class. “The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.”
  3. noun (countable) An affix representing a given variation. “English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.”
  4. noun (countable) Any specific morphological form of a particular word, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation. “Recite every inflection for each of these words.”
  5. noun A change in pitch or tone of voice.
  6. noun (mathematics) A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
  7. noun A turning away from a straight course. “inflection from the rules”
  8. noun (optometry) Diffraction.

Synonyms

flection flexion inflexion prosody modulation

Etymology

From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
  2. noun A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.

Etymology [L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion. See Inflect.]

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

Sanskrit

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