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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gong

UK /ɡɒŋ/ · US /ɡɔŋ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms gong ] gongs gonging gonged the Gong gang gonge goonge goung gounge gung gunge

  1. noun (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
  2. noun (UK, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
  3. noun A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
  4. verb (intransitive) To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
  5. verb To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
  6. verb To warn. “The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.”
  7. verb (UK, slang, transitive) To give an award or medal to.
  8. noun (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  9. noun (obsolete) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
  10. noun (uncountable) A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
  11. noun (uncountable) An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
  12. proper noun (New South Wales, colloquial) Wollongong.

Synonyms

gonghouse feces tam-tam chime bell

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay gong (possibly onomatopoeic).

From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang.

From Mandarin 功 (gōng, “merit; achievement”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A privy or jakes. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]
  2. noun An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.
  3. noun A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; --called also gong bell. Gong metal, an alloy (78 parts of copper, 22 of tin), from which Oriental gongs are made.

Etymology [AS. gong, gang, a going, passage, drain. See Gang.]

Etymology [Malayan (Jav.) gong.]

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

Sanskrit

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