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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quiescent

/kwaɪˈɛsənt/ adjective

  1. adjective Inactive, quiet, at rest. “The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.”
  2. adjective (orthography) Not sounded; silent. “The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".”
  3. adjective (cytology) Non-proliferating.

Synonyms

dormant torpid abeyant at rest cessant dull fallow hibernating idle inactive inert languid latent nonactive passive silent sedent sedentary slow standing by

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.
  2. adjective Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
  3. noun A silent letter. M. Stuart.

Etymology [L. quiescens, -entis, p. pr. of quiescere: cf. F. quiescent. See Quiesce.]

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

Sanskrit

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