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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furlong

UK /ˈfɜːlɒŋ/ · US /ˈfɝˌlɔŋ/ noun, proper noun

Forms furlongs forlong

  1. noun A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.
  2. noun A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about four hectares).
  3. noun (UK, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
  4. noun (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”).
  5. noun Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”).
  6. noun Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows”).
  7. noun Synonym of land (“any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”).
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Buckingham Township and Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Synonyms

stade stadium stadion headland land

Etymology

From Middle English furlong, forlong (“unit of distance about one-eighth of a mile; quantity of land equal to one square furlong; racetrack for foot races; foot race”) [and other forms], from Old English furlang, furlung, from furh (“a furrow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig; to open; to rip up”) + lang (“long”, adjective) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”)), originally the typical length of a furrow in an average field.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.

Etymology [OE. furlong, furlang, AS. furlang, furlung, prop., the length of a furrow; furh furrow + lang long. See Furrow, and Long, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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