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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perspire

UK /pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/ · US /pɚˈspaɪɹ/ verb

Forms perspires perspiring perspired

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores. “I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin. “A fluid perspires.”
  3. verb (ambitransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.

Synonyms

sweat sudate

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
  2. verb To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.
  3. verb To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores.

Etymology [L. perspirare to breathe through; per + spirare. See Per-, and Spirit.]

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

Sanskrit

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