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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hiss

/hɪs/ noun, verb

Also a form of his

Forms hisses hissing hissed

  1. noun A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
  2. noun An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.
  3. verb (intransitive) To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping. “As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.”
  4. verb (transitive) To call someone by hissing.
  5. verb (transitive, intransitive) To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. “The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.”
  6. verb (transitive) To utter (something) with a hissing sound.
  7. verb (intransitive) To move with a hissing sound. “The arrow hissed through the air.”
  8. verb (transitive) To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound.
  9. verb (transitive) To whisper, especially angrily or urgently.

Synonyms

fizzle fizz hissing hushing sibilation boo hoot Bronx cheer raspberry razzing razz snort bird siss sizz sibilate whoosh

Etymology

From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin (compare Arabic هَسْهَسَ (hashasa)). Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  2. verb To utter with a hissing sound.
  3. noun A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt.
  4. noun Any sound resembling that above described; as: (a) The noise made by a serpent.

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

Sanskrit

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