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

edging

/ˈɛd͡ʒ.ɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of edge

Forms edgings

  1. noun Anything that forms, defines, or marks the edge of something. “The decorative edging around the door makes it easier to find in the dark.”
  2. noun (climbing) A technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.
  3. noun The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
  4. noun The sexual technique of maintaining a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm.

Antonyms

smearing

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden.
  2. noun The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

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

Sanskrit

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