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

originally

/əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nə.li/ adverb

  1. adverb (not comparable) As it was in the beginning; at first. “Originally, this paper was white, but over the years it has yellowed with age.”
  2. adverb In an original manner. “They had to think originally to come up with those creative ideas.”

Synonyms

at first innovatively outside the box initially at the start primitively in the beginning in the first place earlier to begin with

Etymology

From Middle English originali; equivalent to original + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.
  2. adverb At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand. "Originally a half length [portrait]." Walpole.

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

Sanskrit

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

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