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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aspirate

/ˈæs.pəɹ.ət/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms aspirates aspirating aspirated

  1. noun (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
  2. noun (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
  3. noun A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
  4. noun A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
  5. verb (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
  6. verb (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
  7. verb (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air. “The autopsy found that the casualty had aspirated in her sleep.”
  8. verb (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
  9. adjective Synonym of aspirated.

Synonyms

breathe in inhale inspire aspirated draw out suck out

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aspīrātus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
  2. noun A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.
  3. noun A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
  4. adjective Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath.

Etymology [L. aspiratus, p. p. of aspirare to breathe toward or upon, to add the breathing h; ad + spirare to breathe, blow. Cf. Aspire.]

Etymology [L. aspiratus, p. p.]

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

Sanskrit

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