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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incendiary

UK /ɪnˈsɛn.dɪ.əɹ.i/ · US /ɪnˈsɛn.di.ɛɹ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms incendiaries

  1. adjective Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.
  2. adjective (technical) Of a damaging fire, intentionally caused rather than accidental.
  3. adjective (figurative) Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion.
  4. adjective (figurative) Inflammatory, emotionally charged. “Politics is an incendiary topic; it tends to cause fights to break out.”
  5. noun Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon. “The military used incendiaries to destroy the building. Fortunately, the fire didn't spread.”
  6. noun One who maliciously sets fires.
  7. noun (figurative) One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels.

Synonyms

arsonist agitator firebug incendiary bomb firebomb incitive inflammatory instigative rabble-rousing seditious

Etymology

From Middle English incendiarie, from Old French incendiaire, from Latin incendiārius (“setting alight”), from incendium (“destructive fire”), from incendō (“to set on fire, kindle”), from in- (“into, in, on, upon”) + candeō (“to be hot”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
  2. noun A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
  4. adjective Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. Paley. Incendiary shell, a bombshell. See Carcass, 4.

Etymology [L. incendiarius: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.]

Etymology [L. incendiarius, fr. incendium a fire, conflagration: cf. F. incendiaire. See Incense to inflame.]

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

Sanskrit

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