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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marked

UK /mɑːkt/ · US /mɑɹkt/ adjective

Also a form of mark

  1. adjective Having a visible or identifying mark.
  2. adjective (of a playing card) Having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
  3. adjective Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous. “The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.”
  4. adjective (linguistics, of a word, form, or phoneme) Distinguished by a positive feature. “"Young" is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is "How old are you?".”
  5. adjective Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance. “A marked man.”
  6. adjective In police livery, as opposed to unmarked. (of a police vehicle)

Synonyms

manifest noticeable obtrusive palpable patent noted singled out targeted positive distinct patterned figured pronounced

Antonyms

unmarked plain spotless

Etymology

From mark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) + -ed.
Less common disyllabic pronunciation (/ˈmɑː.kɪd/) is likely an analogy derived from markedness (explaining its restriction to sense 2).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance.

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

Sanskrit

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

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