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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egress

/ˈiːɡɹɛs/ noun, verb

Forms egresses egressing egressed

  1. noun An exit or way out. “The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency.”
  2. noun The process of exiting or leaving.
  3. noun (astronomy) The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.
  4. verb (intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out.

Synonyms

departure depart exit go out leave emersion emergence issue egression emerge come out come forth go forth

Antonyms

ingress entrance way in entering enter go in

Etymology

From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus, literally “out-way”.

From Latin ēgressum, past participle of ēgredior.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
  2. noun The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
  3. verb To go out; to depart; to leave.

Etymology [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See Grade.]

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

Sanskrit

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