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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nominal

UK /ˈnɒm.ɪ.nl̩/ · US /ˈnɑ.mɪ.nl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms nominals

  1. adjective Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
  2. adjective Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
  3. adjective Existing in name only. “a nominal difference”
  4. adjective (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
  5. adjective Insignificantly small. “He gave me only a nominal sum for my services.”
  6. adjective Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value. “The nominal voltage is 1.5 V, but the actual figure is usually higher.”
  7. adjective (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
  8. adjective (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
  9. noun (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase. “This sentence contains two nominals.”
  10. noun (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
  11. noun A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.) “Numeric codes of characters used in programming are nominals.”
  12. noun (UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.

Synonyms

ceremonial trifling normal noun phrase nominal phrase token tokenish nominative titular

Antonyms

effective real

Etymology

From the Middle English nominalle (“of nouns”), borrowed from Latin nōminālis (“of names”), ultimately from oblique stem of Latin nōmen, nōminis (“name”) + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition. Bp. Pearson.
  2. adjective Existing in name only; not real; as, a nominal difference.
  3. noun A nominalist. [Obs.] Camden.
  4. noun A verb formed from a noun.

Etymology [L. nominalis, fr. nomen, nominis, name. See Name.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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