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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pervious

UK /ˈpɜː.vɪ.əs/ · US /ˈpɜɹ.vi.əs/ adjective

  1. adjective Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage. “a pervious soil”
  2. adjective Capable of being seen through; open to being examined; patent, unconcealed.
  3. adjective Capable of being penetrated mentally; intelligible, understandable.
  4. adjective Of a person, etc.: susceptible to being influenced by arguments, ideas, etc.; impressionable, tractable.
  5. adjective Capable of penetrating or permeating.
  6. adjective (botany, zoology) Of a body structure (especially the nostril of a bird): having a hole, perforate; also, wide open.

Synonyms

penetrable permeable perviable porous perspicuous transparent pervading

Antonyms

impervious impenetrable impermeable unpervious

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pervius (“having a passage through; passable, penetrable, traversable”) + English -ous (suffix denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)). Pervius is derived from per- (prefix denoting doing something all the way through or entirely) + via (“road, street; method, way; (figurative) course, route”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives)

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
  2. adjective Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. [R.]

Etymology [L. pervis; per + via a way. See Per-, and Voyage.]

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