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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liable

/ˈlaɪ̯əbəl/ adjective

  1. adjective Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable. “The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.”
  2. adjective Subject; susceptible; prone. “This crime is liable to imprisonment for life.”
  3. adjective Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable. “Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.”
  4. adjective (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely. “Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.”

Synonyms

apt nonimmune nonresistant unresistant

Etymology

From Old French lier (“to bind”), from Latin ligō, ligāre (“to bind, to tie”).
Compare typologically Russian обя́занный (objázannyj), обяза́тельный (objazátelʹnyj) (akin to вяза́ть (vjazátʹ)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
  2. adjective Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; --with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.

Etymology [From F. lier to bind, L. ligare. Cf. Ally, v. t., Ligature.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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