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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oblong

UK /ˈɒblɒŋ/ · US /ˈɑblɔŋ/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms oblongs oblonging oblonged

  1. adjective Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
  2. adjective Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
  3. adjective (bookbinding) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
  4. noun Something with an oblong shape.
  5. noun A rectangle with length and width that are different.
  6. noun An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
  7. verb (transitive) To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
  8. verb (transitive) To give an oblong shape to.

Etymology

From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
  2. noun A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

Etymology [L. oblongus; ob (see Ob-) + longus long: cf. F. oblong.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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