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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involute

adjective, verb, noun

Forms involutes involuting involuted

  1. adjective (formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
  2. adjective (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
  3. adjective (biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
  4. adjective (biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
  5. adjective (biology) Rolled inward spirally.
  6. verb To roll or curl inwards.
  7. noun (geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.

Synonyms

evolvent rolled

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Rolled inward from the edges; --said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation. Gray.
  2. adjective (a) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
  3. noun A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; --called also evolvent. See Evolute.

Etymology [L. involutus, p. p. of involvere. See Involve.]

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