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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twelfth

/twɛlfθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɫfθ] adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms twelfths the Twelfth twelfe twelveth

  1. adjective The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence. “The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.”
  2. noun One of twelve equal parts of a whole. “A twelfth of 240 is 20.”
  3. noun (music) An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth.
  4. proper noun Synonym of Orangemen's Day.

Synonyms

12th XIIth XII dozenth uncia Orangemen's Day one-twelfth twelfth part duodecimal

Etymology

From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”),
Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; --the ordinal of twelve.
  2. adjective Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
  3. noun The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.
  4. noun The next in order after the eleventh.

Etymology [For twelft, OE. twelfte, AS. twelfta. See Twelve.]

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

Sanskrit

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