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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fungus

/ˈfʌŋ.ɡəs/ noun

Forms fungi funguses fungusses

  1. noun (mycology) A eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Fungi typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
  2. noun (uncountable) The flesh of such an organism.
  3. noun (archaic, pathology) A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”). Displaced native Old English swamm.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any one of the Fungi, a large and very complex group of thallophytes of low organization, --the molds, mildews, rusts, smuts, mushrooms, toadstools, puff balls, and the allies of each.
  2. noun A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn.

Etymology [L., a mushroom; perh. akin to a doubtful Gr. sponge.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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