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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feat

/fiːt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms feats feater featest feating feated

  1. noun A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment. “I consider scaling Mount Blanc the greatest physical feat of my life.”
  2. adjective (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
  3. verb (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
  4. verb (transitive, informal) To feature.

Synonyms

effort exploit

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.

Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An act; a deed; an exploit.
  2. noun A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
  3. verb To form; to fashion. [Obs.]
  4. adjective Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. [Archaic]

Etymology [OE. fet, OF. fet, fait, F. fait, factum, fr. L. facere, factum, to make or do. Cf. Fact, Feasible, Do.]

Etymology [F. fait made, shaped, fit, p.p. of faire to make or do. See Feat, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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