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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wisp

/wɪsp/ noun, verb

Forms wisps wisping wisped

  1. noun A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; a twisted handful of something; any slender, flexible structure or group. “A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.”
  2. noun A small, thin line of cloud, smoke, or steam. “A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.”
  3. noun A whisk, or small broom.
  4. noun A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
  5. noun An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.
  6. noun (archaic, collective) A flock of snipe.
  7. noun (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
  8. verb (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
  9. verb (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
  10. verb (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
  11. verb (transitive) To emit in wisps.

Etymology

From Middle English wispe, wyspe, wips, wipse, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *wisp, *wips. Cognate with West Frisian wisp, Dutch wisp (“bundle of hay or straw”), Norwegian bokmål/Swedish/Bornholm Danish visp (“handful or bundle of grass, hay, etc.”). Akin also to Middle Dutch/Middle Low German wispel (“measure of grain”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
  2. noun A whisk, or small broom.
  3. verb To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
  4. verb To rumple. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Etymology [OE. wisp, wips; probably akin to D. & G. wisch, Icel. visk, and perhaps to L. virga a twig, rod. Cf. Verge a rod, Whisk, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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