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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status

UK /ˈsteɪ.təs/ · US /ˈsteɪt.əs/ noun

Forms statuses stati

  1. noun A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others. “Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.”
  2. noun Prestige or high standing.
  3. noun A situation or state of affairs. “What's the status of the investigation?”
  4. noun (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
  5. noun (Canada, usually used to modify another noun) The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act. “He is a status Indian.”
  6. noun (social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact. “I'm just about to update my status to "busy".”

Synonyms

place footing position condition

Etymology

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate. Displaced native Old English hād (“rank, status”).

From Latin statūs pl.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun State; condition; position of affairs.

Etymology [L.]

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

Sanskrit

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