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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indelible

/ɪnˈdɛləbl/ adjective

  1. adjective Having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. “This ink spot on the contract is indelible.”
  2. adjective (figurative) Incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten. “That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.”
  3. adjective Incapable of being annulled.

Synonyms

unerasable unforgettable

Antonyms

delible uninsertable

Etymology

From Latin indēlēbilis (“indestructible”). By surface analysis, in- + delible.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.
  2. adjective That can not be annulled; indestructible. [R.]

Etymology [L. indelebilis; pref.in- not + delebilis capable of being destroyed: cf. F. indélébile. See In- not, and Deleble.]

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

Sanskrit

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