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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revolve

UK /ɹɪˈvɒlv/ · US /ɹɪˈvɑlv/ verb, noun

Forms revolves revolving revolved

  1. verb (transitive, now rare) To bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause (something) to turn around a central point.
  3. verb (intransitive) To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body). “The Earth revolves around the sun.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To rotate around an axis. “The Earth revolves once every twenty-four hours.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To move in order or sequence. “The program revolves through all the queues before returning to the start.”
  6. verb (transitive, now rare) To ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To read through, to study (a book, author etc.).
  8. noun (theater) The rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
  9. noun (theater) The rotating section itself.
  10. noun (obsolete) A radical change; revolution.

Synonyms

go around rotate orb orbit roll

Etymology

From Middle English revolven (“to change direction”), borrowed from Old French revolver (“to reflect upon”), from Latin revolvere (“turn over, roll back, reflect upon”), from re- (“back”) + volvō (“roll”); see voluble, volve.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, --which is the more specific word in this sense.
  2. verb To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
  3. verb To cause to turn, as on an axis.
  4. verb Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of. This having heard, straight I again revolved The law and prophets.

Etymology [L. revolvere, revolutum; pref. re- re- + volvere to roll, turn round. See Voluble, and cf. Revolt, revolution.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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