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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amble

/ˈæm.bəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms ambles ambling ambled

  1. noun An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll. “slow amble”
  2. noun An easy gait, especially that of a horse.
  3. noun (computing) That which follows the preamble, by analogy.
  4. verb (intransitive) To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. “amble through the park”
  5. verb (intransitive) Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.
  6. proper noun A town, harbour, and civil parish with a town council in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU2604).
  7. proper noun A minor river in Cornwall, England, which flows into the River Camel estuary (OS grid ref SW9974).
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Winfield Township, Montcalm County, Michigan, United States.

Synonyms

saunter promenade stroll perambulation mosey

Etymology

From Middle English amblen, from Old French ambler (“walk as a horse does”), from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambulō (“to walk”). Doublet of ambulate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To go at the easy gait called an amble; --applied to the horse or to its rider.
  2. verb To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks.
  3. noun A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other side. "A fine easy amble." B. Jonson.
  4. noun A movement like the amble of a horse.

Etymology [F. ambler to amble, fr. L. ambulare to walk, in LL., to amble, perh. fr. amb-, ambi-, and a root meaning to go: cf. Gr. base. Cf. Ambulate.]

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