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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volcanic

UK /vɒlˈkænɪk/ · US /vɔlˈkænɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms volcanics

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes. “volcanic heat”
  2. adjective Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies. “volcanic tufa”
  3. adjective Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
  4. adjective (figurative) Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
  5. noun A volcanic rock. “The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.”

Synonyms

volcanian Vulcanian

Etymology

From French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
  2. adjective Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.

Etymology [Cf. F. volcanique, It. vulcanico.]

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