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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brunt

/bɹʌnt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms brunts brunting brunted

  1. noun The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event. “Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.”
  2. noun The force or shock of an attack in war.
  3. noun The major part of something; the bulk. “If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.”
  4. noun (obsolete) A violent attack or charge in battle.
  5. noun (obsolete, by extension) A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
  6. noun (obsolete) A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.
  7. verb (transitive, rare) To bear the brunt of; to weather or withstand.
  8. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To make a violent attack or charge.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).

* As an English surname, from placenames derived from the adjective burnt. Compare Brent.
* As an Irish surname, variant of Prunty.
* As a Dutch surname, possibly a variant of Bruns.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
  2. noun The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras.

Etymology [OE. brunt, bront, fr. Icel. bruna to rush; cf. Icel. brenna to burn. Cf. Burn, v. t.]

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