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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browning

/ˈbɹaʊ.nɪŋ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of brown

Forms brownings

  1. noun The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, cooked food, etc.
  2. noun Any of various preparations used to impart a brown colour to gravy, leather, etc.
  3. noun (masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.
  4. noun (Jamaica, countable) A brown-skinned person.
  5. proper noun A surname from Old English.
  6. proper noun A person of that surname.
  7. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Georgia.
  9. proper noun A village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
  10. proper noun A minor city in Linn County and Sullivan County, Missouri.
  11. proper noun A town in Glacier County, Montana.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
  13. noun Fabrique Nationale FN Model 1910 Browning and its derivatives; a European handgun; a small, semi-automatic pistol.
  14. noun Synonym of BAR (“Browning automatic rifle”), a light machine gun

Synonyms

25851 25851 Browning (25851) Browning 2000 EE120 (25851) 2000 EE120 25851 (2000 EE120) Browning 2000 EE120 Browning (2000 EE120) Browning Asteroid Browning BAR John M. Browning John Moses Browning Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning toasting

Etymology

From Old English Brūning, a patronymic for a person nicknamed Brūn (“brown”) (see Brown).
For the first half-century of their manufacturer, the majority of semi-automatic handguns in Europe were designed by John M. Browning.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.
  2. noun A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

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