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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eddy

/ˈɛd.i/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms eddies eddying eddied eddys Eddie

  1. noun A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
  2. noun A circular current; a whirlpool.
  3. verb (intransitive) To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. “He waded out, the stream eddying around his legs.”
  4. noun (slang) A marijuana edible.
  5. proper noun A diminutive of Edward, Edgar, Edwin, or other male given names beginning with Ed-.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

Mary Baker Eddy Mary Morse Baker Eddy twist purl whirlpool swirl whirl

Etymology

From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é, and, consequently, cognate with Latin et. Related also to Danish ide (“eddy”), Swedish eda (“eddy”), Norwegian ida, ia, ea (“eddy”), Icelandic iða (“eddy”).

Clipping of edible.

Diminutives + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
  2. noun A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
  3. verb To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
  4. verb To collect as into an eddy. [R.]

Etymology [Prob. fr. Icel. i; cf. Icel. pref. i back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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