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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

riding

/ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of ride

Forms ridings

  1. noun A path cut through woodland.
  2. noun The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
  3. noun The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation.
  4. noun (historical) A festival procession.
  5. noun (historical) Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.
  6. noun (Canada) Electoral district or constituency.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

royd thwaite assart ride horseback riding equitation

Etymology

From Middle English rydyng; equivalent to ride + -ing.

From trithing (initial /t/ absorbed into preceding north, south, east, west, inner ⟨th⟩ already sometimes /d/ in Middle English), from Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriþing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”), from Proto-Germanic *þridjô (“third”) (English third). Equivalent to third + -ing; compare with farthing (“fourth part”). Cognate with English trithing.
The folk etymology that connects the term to the area a horse-rider could cover in a single day is incorrect, but may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; --formerly under the government of reeve.
  2. adjective Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.
  3. adjective Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
  4. noun The act or state of one who rides.

Etymology [For thriding, Icel. pr the third part, fr. pri third, akin to E. third. See Third.]

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

Sanskrit

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