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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consolidate

UK /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/ · US /kənˈsɑ.lə.deɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms consolidates consolidating consolidated

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join. “He consolidated his luggage into a single large bag.”
  2. verb To make stronger or more solid.
  3. verb (finance) With respect to debt, to pay off several debts with a single loan.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin consolidātus, from the verb consolidō, from solidus (“solid”). By surface analysis, con- + solid + -ate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [R.]
  2. verb To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
  3. verb To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic.
  4. verb To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

Etymology [L. consolidatus, p.pr. of consolidare to make firm; con- + solidare to make firm; solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Consound.]

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