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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oral

UK /ˈɔː.ɹəl/ · US /ˈoɹəl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms orals

  1. adjective (relational) Relating to the mouth. “oral hygiene”
  2. adjective (pharmacology) Done or taken by the mouth.
  3. adjective (phonetics, of a speech sound) Pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
  4. adjective (psychoanalysis, in Freudian theory) Relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development during which libidinal gratification is derived from intake (as of food), by sucking, and later by biting.
  5. adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by personality traits of passive dependency and aggressiveness.
  6. adjective (relational) Spoken rather than written. “an oral presentation”
  7. adjective Relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth.
  8. adjective Using speech or the lips especially in teaching the deaf.
  9. noun (countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class. “We've got our Spanish oral tomorrow.”
  10. noun (countable, usually in the plural) A physical examination of the mouth.
  11. proper noun A male given name from Latin of American usage
  12. proper noun A city in Kazakhstan.

Synonyms

mouthly spoken verbal oral exam oral examination viva voce viva unwritten

Antonyms

written aboral anal

Etymology

Early 17th century borrowing from Late Latin ōrālis, from ōs (“the mouth”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Ultimately from Latin Aurelius.

Borrowed from Kazakh Орал (Oral).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.

Etymology [L. os, oris, the mouth, akin to Skr. as. Cf. Adore, Orison, Usher.]

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

Sanskrit

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