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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title

/ˈtaɪ̯.təl/ noun, verb, interjection

Forms titles titling titled

  1. noun The name of a film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art. “I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.”
  2. noun The name of a writing such as a book, which identifies it and usually describes its subject, with a short phrase that often summarizes its topic.
  3. noun (by extension) A published piece of media. “The retailer carries thousands of titles.”
  4. noun (by extension) A section or division of a writing, as of an act of law or a book. “Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act”
  5. noun An appellation given to a person or family to signify either veneration, official position, social rank, the possession of assets or properties, or a professional or academic qualification, such as Mister, Mr, Ms, Doctor, or Dr; for more examples, see :Category:en:Titles.
  6. noun (property law) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this. “a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title”
  7. noun In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
  8. noun A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
  9. verb (transitive) To assign a title to; to entitle.
  10. interjection (Internet slang) Used in the body of a post to indicate that the title has already said all that needs to be said.

Synonyms

style honour statute title rubric championship deed deed of conveyance title of respect form of address claim entitle

Etymology

From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, titlo, tittle, and titulus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
  2. noun The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.
  3. verb To call by a title; to name; to entitle.

Etymology [OF. title, F. titre, L. titulus an inscription, label, title, sign, token. Cf. Tilde, Titrate, Titular.]

Etymology [Cf. L. titulare, F. titrer. See Title, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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