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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asleep

/əˈsliːp/ adjective

  1. adjective In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. “I was asleep when you called.”
  2. adjective (slang) Inattentive. “How could you miss that? Were you asleep?”
  3. adjective (of a body part) Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness. “My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.”
  4. adjective (euphemistic) Dead.

Synonyms

cold comatose dead to the world dormant down for the count in the arms of Morpheus in the arms of Murphy nangry out cold out like a light sacked out sleepbound sleeping somnambular unawakening unawaking unwaking benumbed numb at peace at rest deceased departed gone

Antonyms

awake

Etymology

From Middle English aslepe, equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + sleep.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
  2. adjective In the sleep of the grave; dead.

Etymology [Pref. a- + sleep.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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