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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numeral

UK /ˈnjuːməɹəl/ · US /ˈnuməɹəl/ noun, adjective

Forms numerals

  1. noun A symbol that is not a word and represents a number, such as the Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3 or the Roman numerals I, V, X, L.
  2. noun A representation of a number composed of such symbols.
  3. noun (linguistics) A number word, a simple or compound word for a number often having particular grammatical attributes depending on the language.
  4. noun (card games) A card whose rank is a number (usually including the ace as 1). “Jacks, queens, and kings are not numerals.”
  5. adjective Of or relating to numbers; numerical.

Synonyms

numeric number numerical

Etymology

As an adjective, from Middle English numeral, numerall, from Latin numerālis (“pertaining to a number”), from numerus (“a number”).
As a noun, via Middle French numeral.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.
  2. adjective Expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as X or 10 for ten.
  3. noun A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc.
  4. noun A word expressing a number.

Etymology [L. numeralis, fr. numerus number: cf. F. numéral. See Number, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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