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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lunge

/lʌnd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms lunges lungeing lunging lunged longe

  1. noun A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
  2. noun A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
  3. noun An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
  4. noun A fish, the namaycush.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To (cause to) make a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging). “I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.”
  6. verb (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).

Synonyms

lurch straight thrust passado hurl hurtle thrust

Etymology

From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus. Doublet of allonge.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.
  2. verb To make a lunge.
  3. verb To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter. Thackeray.
  4. noun Same as Namaycush.

Etymology [Also spelt longe, fr. allonge. See Allonge, Long.]

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