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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infirm

UK /ɪnˈfɜːm/ · US /ɪnˈfɜɹm/ adjective, verb

Forms infirmer infirmest infirms infirming infirmed

  1. adjective Weak or ill, not in good health. “He was infirm of body but still keen of mind, and though it looked like he couldn't walk across the room, he crushed me in debate.”
  2. adjective Irresolute; weak of mind or will.
  3. adjective Frail; unstable; insecure.
  4. verb To contradict, to provide proof that something is not. “The thought is that you see an episode of observation, experiment, or reasoning as confirming or infirming a hypothesis depending on whether the probability of it being correct increases or decreases during the episode.”

Synonyms

crank ill sick unwell disconfirm decrepit debile feeble rickety sapless weak weakly

Antonyms

confirm

Etymology

* The noun is from Middle English infirme, from Latin infirmus (“weak, feeble”).
* The verb is from Latin īnfirmāre, from īnfirmus (“sick, weak, infirm”) + -ō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution.
  2. adjective Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." Burke.
  3. verb To weaken; to enfeeble. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Etymology [L.infirmus: cf.F.infirme. See In- not, and Firm, a.]

Etymology [L. infirmare : cf. F.infirmer.]

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

Sanskrit

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