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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floaty

UK /ˈfləʊti/ · US /ˈfloʊti/ adjective, noun

Forms floatier floatiest floaties floatie

  1. adjective Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.
  2. adjective (nautical, archaic) Of a ship: having a shallow draft (the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water.
  3. adjective Of music: light and relaxing.
  4. adjective Of an object: light and flimsy or soft; specifically, of a dress: lightweight, so as to rise away from the body when the wearer is moving.
  5. adjective Of a person: feeling calm, dreamy, happy, etc., as if floating in the air.
  6. adjective Of speech or writing: overly complicated or elaborate; flowery, grandiloquent.
  7. noun A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.
  8. noun A lilo (inflatable air mattress) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on.
  9. noun (swimming, chiefly in the plural) Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).

Synonyms

gossamer armfloat water wing armband buoyant

Etymology

From float (noun or verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘inclined to’ forming adjectives). Compare Middle English floti, floty (“of a place: well supplied with water”).

From float (noun) + -y (suffix forming diminutive nouns).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.

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