Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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yearly

UK /ˈjɪəli/ · US /ˈjɪɹli/ adjective, adverb, noun

Forms yearlies

adjective Happening once every year. “Christmas is a yearly celebration.”
adjective Over the course of one year “a yearly income”
adverb Once a year.
adverb Every year.
noun Something that is published once a year.

Synonyms

annual per annum perennial annually perennially yearbook every year each year

Etymology

From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).

Webster’s 1913

adjective Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
adjective Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.
adverb Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.

Etymology [AS. geárlic.]

Etymology [AS. geárlice.]

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

Sanskrit

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

आब्दिक ābdika annual, yearly.
प्रतिवर्षम् prati-varṣam every year, year by year, yearly.
प्रतिसंवत्सरम् prati-saṃvatsaram every year, year by year, yearly.
प्रत्यब्दम् praty-abdam every year, year by year, yearly.
वार्षिक्य vārṣikya yearly, annual; ( am ), n. the rainy season.
प्रतिवत्सर prati-vatsara a year; ( am ), ind. every year, year by year, yearly.
वार्ष vārṣa belonging to the rains, etc., belonging to a year, yearly, annual.
समीन samīna yearly, annual, relating to a year; hired for a year; after a year, a year hence.

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