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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falter

UK /ˈfɒltə/ · US /ˈfɔltəɹ/ noun, verb

Forms falters faltering faltered faulter

  1. noun An unsteadiness.
  2. verb To waver or be unsteady; to weaken or trail off.
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
  4. verb To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
  5. verb To stumble.
  6. verb (figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
  7. verb To hesitate in purpose or action.
  8. verb To cleanse or sift, as barley.

Synonyms

flounder hesitation waver faltering stumble bumble stutter stammer

Etymology

From Middle English falteren (“to stagger; be unsteady, tremble, quiver; to stammer; be entangled, get caught”), further origin unknown. Probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse faltrask (“to hesitate, be puzzled, be encumbered”). May also be a frequentative of fold, although the change from d to t is unusual.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
  2. verb To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
  3. verb To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs falter." Wiseman.
  4. verb To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.

Etymology [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault. See Fault, v. & n.]

Etymology [See Falter, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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