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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fusil

/ˈfjuːzɪl/ noun

Forms fusils

  1. noun (heraldry) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
  2. noun (now historical) A light flintlock musket or firelock.

Synonyms

fusee

Etymology

From Middle English fusill, from Old French fusel, fuisel, from a late Latin diminutive of Latin fūsus (“spindle”).

From Middle French fusil, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth; fire”). Doublet of fusee.

Alternative forms.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.]
  2. adjective Running or flowing, as a liquid. [R.] "A fusil sea." J. Philips.
  3. noun A light kind of flintlock musket, formerly in use.
  4. noun A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; --named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle.

Etymology [L. fusilis molten, fluid, fr. fundere, fusum, to pour, cast. See Fuse, v. t.]

Etymology [F. fusil, LL. fosile a steel for kindling fire, from L. focus hearth, fireplace, in LLL. fire. See Focus, and cf. Fusee a firelock.]

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