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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recline

/ɹɪˈklaɪn/ verb, noun

Forms reclines reclining reclined reclinest reclinedst reclineth

  1. verb (transitive) To cause to lean back; to bend back.
  2. verb (transitive) To put in a resting position. “She reclined her arms on the table and sighed.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To lean back. “to recline against a wall”
  4. verb (intransitive) To put oneself in a resting position. “to recline on a couch”
  5. noun A mechanism for lowering the back of a seat to support a less upright position; Also, the action of lowering the back using such a mechanism.

Synonyms

lean back recumb repose

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reclīnāre (“to bend back”). Compare decline, incline.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc., to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
  2. verb To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
  3. verb To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
  4. adjective Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.]

Etymology [L. reclinare; pref. re- re- + clinare to lean, incline. See Incline, Lean to incline.]

Etymology [L. reclinis. See Recline, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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