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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mortality

/mɔɹˈtælɪti/ noun

Forms mortalities

  1. noun The state of being susceptible to death.
  2. noun (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.
  3. noun (archaic) The quality of causing death.
  4. noun Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
  5. noun (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
  6. noun (figuratively) Death.
  7. noun (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.

Synonyms

deadliness lethality w:mortality rate MR death rate DR fatality quietus death end tomb celestial transfer decease decomposition defunction dematerialization demise dirt nap doom exit deathrate mortality rate fatality rate

Antonyms

immortality

Etymology

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
  2. noun Human life; the life of a mortal being.

Etymology [L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité.]

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

Sanskrit

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