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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rosin

UK /ˈɹɒz.ən/ · US /ˈɹɑz.ən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of resin

Forms rosins rosining rosined rosil rozin

  1. noun (organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.
  2. noun Resin.
  3. verb (transitive) To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin. “We waited expectantly as the guest violinist rosined his bow in preparation for playing.”
  4. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

colophony Greek pitch resin

Etymology

From Old French raisine, rousine, variants of résine. Doublet of resin.

* As a German surname, from the noun Rosine (“raisin”). Also Germanized/Americanized from Slavic forms of this word such as Slovene rozina, Lower Sorbian rozyna, themselves borrowed from the German.
* As an Italian surname, variant of Rosino, pet form of Roso, itself from both Rosa and Rosso.
* As a French surname, pet form or variant of Rose.
* As a Serbo-Croatian surname (Rošin), from a variant of Rosko (converged from several meanings, including rod (“relative”)) or Rosic (related to Rosalia, or from rosa (“dew”)).
* As a Jewish surname, variant of the Yiddish form of Rose (compare רויז (royz)).
* Also as a Jewish surname, Russified from Rosen.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony. Rosin oil, an oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree, --used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc.
  2. verb To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.

Etymology [A variant of resin.]

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