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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subsidiary

/sʌbˈsɪ.di.əɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms subsidiaries

  1. adjective Auxiliary or supplemental.
  2. adjective Secondary or subordinate. “a subsidiary stream”
  3. adjective Of or relating to a subsidy. “subsidiary payments to an ally”
  4. noun A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company.
  5. noun (music) A subordinate theme.
  6. noun One who aids or supplies; an assistant.

Synonyms

subordinate underling foot soldier subsidiary company auxiliary supplemental supplementary

Etymology

From Middle French subsidiaire, from Latin subsidiarius (“belonging to a reserve”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
  3. noun One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary. Hammond.

Etymology [L. subsidiarius: cf. F. subsidiaire. See Subsidy.]

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

Sanskrit

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