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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mountain

UK /ˈmaʊn.tɪn/ · US /ˈmaʊn.t(ə)n/ noun, proper noun

Forms mountains

  1. noun (countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. “Everest is the highest mountain in the world.”
  2. noun (countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap. “He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.”
  3. noun (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
  4. noun (uncountable, now historical) Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
  5. noun (countable, slang) A woman's large breast.
  6. noun (cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.
  7. proper noun A minor city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, originally named Mole Hill.
  9. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.
  10. proper noun A number of townships in the United States, listed under Mountain Township.
  11. proper noun A rural municipality in western Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Mountain.
  12. proper noun A hamlet near Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0930).
  13. proper noun (historical, obsolete) A huge province in the Cordilleras composed of the subprovinces of Apayao, Amburayan, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto-Bontoc.
  14. proper noun (countable) A surname.
  15. noun (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.

Synonyms

mount barrow berg berry pike alp beacon ben crest eminence fell height highland hill jebel mont mound pinnacle prominence reek batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful heap lot mass mess

Etymology

From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native English barrow (from Old English beorg) and down (from Old English dūn), and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).

From mountain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.
  2. noun pl.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
  4. adjective Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.

Etymology [OE. mountaine, montaine, F. montagne, LL. montanea, montania, fr. L. mons, montis, a mountain; cf. montanus belonging to a mountain. See 1st Mount.]

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

Sanskrit

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