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

seventeenth

/ˌsɛvənˈtiːnθ/ adjective, noun

Forms seventeenths

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
  2. noun One of seventeen equal parts of a whole. “A seventeeth of 340 is 20.”
  3. noun (music) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Synonyms

17th

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sevententhe, seventethe, from Old English seofontēoþa, equivalent to seventeen + -th.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
  2. adjective Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
  3. noun The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
  4. noun The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

Etymology [From Seventeen: cf. AS. seofonteóedha, seofonteogeedha.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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