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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message

/ˈmɛs.ɪdʒ/ noun, verb

Forms messages messaging messaged msg

  1. noun A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed. “We've just received an urgent message from the President.”
  2. noun An errand.
  3. noun (Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand, Caribbean, chiefly in the plural) An errand to a shop, a shopping expedition; an item of shopping; (in plural) groceries.
  4. noun An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something. “The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.”
  5. verb To send a message to; to transmit a message to, e.g. as text via a cell phone. “Just message me for directions.”
  6. verb To send (something) as a message; usually refers to electronic messaging. “She messaged me the information yesterday.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To send a message or messages; to be capable of sending messages. “We've implemented a new messaging service.”
  8. verb (obsolete) To bear as a message.

Synonyms

text content subject matter substance

Etymology

From Middle English message, from Old French message, from Early Medieval Latin missāticum, derived from Latin mittere (“send”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). Partially displaced Old English ærende (whence errand).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
  2. noun Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message.
  3. verb To bear as a message. [Obs.]
  4. noun A messenger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [F., fr. LL. missaticum, fr. L. mittere, missum, to send. See Mission, and cf. Messenger.]

Etymology [OE., fr. OF. message, fr. LL. missaticus. See 1st Message.]

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

Sanskrit

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