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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floating

UK /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/ · US /ˈfloʊtɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of float

Forms floatings

  1. adjective That floats or float. “floating buoys”
  2. adjective Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift. “The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.”
  3. adjective (linguistics, phonology, of a tone, or by extension any segment or feature) Present in the underlying phonological representation but not linked to an anchor on which it can surface.
  4. noun The motion of something that floats.
  5. noun (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.
  6. noun The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
  7. noun (veterinary medicine) A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

Synonyms

natation aimless drifting vagabond vagrant

Etymology

By surface analysis, float + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
  2. adjective Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
  3. noun Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
  4. noun The second coat of three-coat plastering. Knight.

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

Sanskrit

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

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