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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sensate

/ˈsɛn.seɪt/ adjective, verb

Forms sensates sensating sensated

  1. adjective Perceived by one or more of the senses.
  2. adjective Having the ability to sense things physically.
  3. adjective Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
  4. verb (transitive) To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive. “to sensate light, or an odour”

Etymology

From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.
  2. adjective Felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses. [R.]

Etymology [See Sensated.]

Etymology [L. sensatus gifted with sense, intelligent, fr. sensus sense. See Sense.]

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