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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finding

/ˈfaɪndɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of find

Forms findings

  1. noun (often plural) A result of research or an investigation.
  2. noun (law) A formal conclusion by a judge, jury or regulatory agency on issues of fact.
  3. noun That which is found, a find, a discovery.
  4. noun The act of discovering something by chance, an instance of finding something by chance.
  5. noun (Canada, US, generally plural) Tools or materials used in shoe making or repair. [from 19th century]
  6. noun (jewelry) A self-contained component of assembled jewellery. [from 19th century]

Synonyms

serendipity determination

Etymology

From Middle English fyndyng, Old English findincge; equivalent to find + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton.
  2. noun Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

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

Sanskrit

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

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