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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liability

/laɪəˈbɪlɪti/ noun

Forms liabilities

  1. noun An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
  2. noun (accounting) Any kind of debt recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
  3. noun A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; a person or action that exposes others to greater risk.
  4. noun (informal, mildly derogatory) A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help. “You're a bloody liability sometimes!”
  5. noun The likelihood of something happening.
  6. noun The condition of being susceptible to something.

Synonyms

indebtedness financial obligation

Antonyms

asset

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.
  2. noun That which one is under obligation to pay, or for which one is liable. Specifically, in the pl.,

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

Sanskrit

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