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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baking

/ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/ adjective, noun

Also a form of bake

Forms bakings

  1. adjective That bakes. “baking bread; baking clay; baking dish”
  2. adjective (figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting. “I’m baking—could you open the window?”
  3. noun An action in which something is baked. “I’m going to do some baking this afternoon.”
  4. noun The way in which something is baked.
  5. noun (countable) The production of a batch of baked product.

Synonyms

baking hot

Etymology

From Middle English bakynge; equivalent to bake + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.
  2. noun The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter.

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

Sanskrit

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

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