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

digestion

/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/ noun

Forms digestions

  1. noun The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
  2. noun The result of this process.
  3. noun The ability to use this process.
  4. noun The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
  5. noun The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
  6. noun (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
  7. noun (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.

Etymology

From Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
  2. noun The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

Etymology [F. digestion, L. digestio.]

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

Sanskrit

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