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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mountaineer

UK /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪə̯(ɹ)/ · US /ˌmaʊn.tɪnˈɪɹ/ noun, verb

Forms mountaineers mountaineering mountaineered

  1. noun (now rare) A person who lives in a mountainous area (often with the connotation that such people are outlaws or uncivilized).
  2. noun A person who climbs mountains for sport or pleasure.
  3. noun (obsolete) An animal or plant that is native to a mountainous area.
  4. noun A bird of the genus Oreonympha; also called the bearded mountaineer or eastern mountaineer
  5. verb (intransitive) To climb mountains; to climb using the techniques of a mountaineer.
  6. verb (intransitive, figurative) To climb as if on a mountain.
  7. noun A person from or resident of West Virginia.

Synonyms

highlander mountainer alpinist cragsman mountain climber clamber hike West Virginian

Etymology

From mountaineer

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.
  2. noun A rude, fierce person. [Obs.]
  3. verb To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.

Etymology [OF. montanier, LL. montanarius. See Mountain.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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