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

sitting

/ˈsɪtɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of sit

Forms sittings

  1. noun A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose. “Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.”
  2. noun A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
  3. noun A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
  4. noun The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
  5. noun A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
  6. noun The incubation of eggs by a bird.
  7. noun (collective) A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird. “we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs”
  8. noun (idiomatic) An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything. “I read it in two sittings.”
  9. adjective Executed from a sitting position.
  10. adjective Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
  11. adjective Of a bird, incubating eggs.

Synonyms

posing seance session seated

Etymology

From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).

From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
  2. noun The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
  3. noun A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

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

Sanskrit

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

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