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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incense

/ˈɪnsɛn(t)s/ noun, verb

Forms incenses incensing incensed

  1. noun Biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt, often used in religious rites or for aesthetic reasons.
  2. noun The fragrant smoke released by burning incense (sense 1).
  3. noun (figurative) Homage; adulation.
  4. verb (obsolete, transitive) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
  5. verb (transitive) To anger; to infuriate. “I think it would incense him to learn the truth.”
  6. verb (archaic, transitive) To incite; to stimulate.
  7. verb (transitive) To offer incense to.
  8. verb (transitive) To perfume with, or as with, incense.

Synonyms

inflame aflame alight conflagrate fire fire up ignite enkindle light light up set ablaze set afire set aflame set alight set fire set on fire torch affront aggravate anger cense thurify infuriate exasperate

Etymology

From Middle English encens, from Old French encens (“sweet-smelling substance”) from Late Latin incensum (“burnt incense”, literally “something burnt”), neuter past participle of incendō (“to set on fire”). Compare incendiary. Doublet of incienso. Displaced native Old English rēcels.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.]
  2. verb To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
  3. verb To offer incense to. See Incense. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  4. verb To perfume with, or as with, incense. "Incensed with wanton sweets." Marston.

Etymology [L. incensus, p. p. of incendere; pref. in- in + root of candere to glow. See Candle.]

Etymology [LL. incensare: cf. F. encenser. See Incense, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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