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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“mortals” is a form of

mortal

UK /ˈmɔː.təl/ · US /ˈmɔɹ.təl/ adjective, noun, adverb

Forms mortals

  1. adjective Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
  2. adjective Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
  3. adjective Punishable by death.
  4. adjective Fatally vulnerable.
  5. adjective Of or relating to the time of death.
  6. adjective Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle. “mortal enemy”
  7. adjective Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal. “mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power”
  8. adjective Very painful or tedious; wearisome. “a sermon lasting two mortal hours”
  9. noun A human; someone susceptible to death. “Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.”
  10. adverb (colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death. “It's mortal cold out there.”

Synonyms

fatal lethal baneful mortalled person individual someone somebody soul deadly deathly

Antonyms

immortal everlasting natal vital venial

Etymology

From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
  2. adjective Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
  3. noun A being subject to death; a human being; man. "Warn poor mortals left behind." Tickell.

Etymology [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.]

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

Sanskrit

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