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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reverberation

/ɹiˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/ noun

Forms reverberations reverbation

  1. noun A violent oscillation or vibration. “The discomfort caused by the bat's reverberation surprised Tommy.”
  2. noun An echo, or a series of overlapping echoes. “The reverberation that followed Marilyn's shout filled the cavern.”
  3. noun The reflection of light or heat; a reflection in, or as though in, a mirror. “Like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking glasses.”
  4. noun (chiefly in the plural) An evolving series of effects resulting from a particular event; a repercussion. “Reverberations from the Vietnam war affect our society to this day.”

Synonyms

echo sound reflection replication repercussion

Etymology

From Old French reverberation, from Medieval Latin reverberatio. Morphologically reverberate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame in a furnace.

Etymology [CF. F. réverbération.]

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

Sanskrit

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