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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

airy

/ˈɛə.ɹi/ adjective, proper noun

Forms airier airiest

  1. adjective Consisting of air. “an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies”
  2. adjective Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial. “an airy flight”
  3. adjective Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy. “an airy situation”
  4. adjective Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
  5. adjective Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
  6. adjective Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
  7. adjective Light-hearted; vivacious
  8. adjective Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

aereous ethereal empty trifling visionary sprightly flippant superficial gaseous carefree aired impractical Laputan windy aeriform aerial aery

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.
  2. adjective Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

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

Sanskrit

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