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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minister

UK /ˈmɪn.ɪs.tə/ · US /ˈmɪn.əˌstɚ/ noun, verb

Forms ministers ministering ministered

  1. noun (Protestantism) A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church. “The minister said a prayer on behalf of the entire congregation.”
  2. noun (Roman Catholicism) A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
  3. noun (government) A politician who heads a ministry “He was newly appointed to be Minister of the Interior.”
  4. noun In diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  5. noun A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  6. verb (intransitive, used with "to") To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
  7. verb (intransitive) To function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship.
  8. verb (transitive, archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.

Synonyms

government minister curate minister of religion parson pastor rector diplomatic minister

Etymology

From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official”), from minor (“less”) + -ter; see minor. Doublet of Minorite.

Inherited from Middle English mynystren, from Middle French ministrer, from Old French menistrer, ministrer and Latin ministrō, from minister.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  2. noun An officer of justice. [Obs.]
  3. verb To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
  4. verb To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.

Etymology [OE. ministre, F. ministre, fr. L. minister, orig. a double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, Minstrel.]

Etymology [OE. ministren, OF. ministrer, fr. L. ministrare. See Minister, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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