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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circumflex

UK /ˈsɜː.kəmˌflɛks/ · US /ˈsɝ.kəmˌflɛks/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms circumflexes circumflexing circumflexed

  1. noun A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
  2. adjective Having a circumflex mark.
  3. adjective Curving around.
  4. verb To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. “to circumflex a syllable”
  5. verb (obsolete) To arch.

Synonyms

circumflex accent

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin circumflexus (“bent about”), calqued from Ancient Greek περισπώμενος (perispṓmenos, “drawn around”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable. Walker.
  2. noun A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or Accent, n., 2.
  3. verb To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. Walker.
  4. adjective Moving or turning round; circuitous. [R.] Swift.

Etymology [L. circumflexus a bending round, fr. circumflectere, circumflexum, to bend or turn about; circum + flectere to bend. See Flexible.]

Etymology [Cf. L. circumflexus, p. p.]

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

Sanskrit

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