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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miner

/ˈmaɪnə(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of minor

Forms miners

  1. noun A person who works in a mine. “The group of miners were stuck underground after a shaft caved in.”
  2. noun An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
  3. noun Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
  4. noun (cryptocurrencies) Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
  5. noun (cryptocurrencies) A person who mines cryptocurrency.
  6. noun Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun A minor city in Mississippi County and Scott County, Missouri, United States.

Synonyms

mineworker mineowner

Etymology

From mine + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).

From myna.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
  2. noun (a) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

Etymology [Cf. F. mineur.]

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

Sanskrit

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