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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servile

UK /ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/ · US /ˈsəɹ.vəl/ adjective, noun

Forms serviles

  1. adjective Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
  2. adjective Slavish or submissive. “servile flattery    servile obedience”
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to slaves or slavery.
  4. adjective (grammar) Not belonging to the original root. “a servile letter”
  5. adjective (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
  6. noun (grammar) An element which forms no part of the original root.
  7. noun A slave; a menial.

Synonyms

abject duteous meek slavish submissive subservient

Antonyms

arrogant authoritarian bossy radical unservile

Etymology

From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”). By surface analysis, serve + -ile.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience.
  2. adjective Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
  3. noun An element which forms no part of the original root; --opposed to radical.

Etymology [L. servile, fr. servus a servant or slave: cf. F. servile. See Serve.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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