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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royalty

/ˈɹɔɪəlti/ noun, proper noun

Forms royalties Royaltys

  1. noun The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
  2. noun People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
  3. noun A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
  4. noun The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
  5. noun (by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
  6. noun (authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
  7. noun (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
  8. noun (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

royal family royal line royal house

Etymology

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty. Doublet of regality.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.
  2. noun The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.

Etymology [OF. roialté, royaulté, F. royauté. See Royal, and cf. Regality.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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