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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finisher

UK /ˈfɪnɪʃə/ · US /ˈfɪnɪʃɚ/ noun

Forms finishers

  1. noun A person who finishes or completes something. “The early finishers waited for the other runners to reach the finish line.”
  2. noun A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.
  3. noun (dated) The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding.
  4. noun (construction) A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
  5. noun (boxing) The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.
  6. noun (video games, informal, professional wrestling) A finishing move.
  7. noun (sports) A player who scores points for their team.
  8. noun (rugby) A substitute player who plays at the end of the game.

Synonyms

scorer inker closer

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.
  2. noun Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.

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

Sanskrit

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