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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tonic

UK /ˈtɒnɪk/ · US /ˈtɑ.nɪk/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms tonics tonicking tonicked tonick

  1. adjective (physics, pathology) Pertaining to tension, especially of the muscles.
  2. adjective Restorative; curative; or invigorating. “The arrival of the new members had a tonic effect on the team.”
  3. adjective (medicine, neuroscience) In a state of continuous unremitting action.
  4. noun A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate. “We used to brew a tonic from a particular kind of root.”
  5. noun Tonic water.
  6. noun (US, Boston, dated) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
  7. noun (figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
  8. verb (medicine, archaic) To restore or invigorate.
  9. adjective (music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
  10. adjective Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
  11. adjective Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
  12. noun (music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
  13. noun (music) The triad built on the tonic note.
  14. noun (phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

Synonyms

tonic water quinine water pop soda soda pop soda water keynote restorative tonal accented bracing brisk fresh refreshing refreshful

Antonyms

atonic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τονικός (tonikós), from τόνος (tónos). 17th century writers believed health to be derived from firmly stretched muscles, thus tonic; the extension of tonic medicine appeared in the late 18th century. By surface analysis, ton(e) + -ic.

From tone + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.
  3. noun A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
  4. noun The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

Etymology [Cf. F. tonigue, Gr. Tone.]

Etymology [Cf. F. tonigue, NL. tonicum.]

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

Sanskrit

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