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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slumber

UK /ˈslʌm.bə/ · US /ˈslʌm.bɚ/ noun, verb

Forms slumbers slumbering slumbered slumbre

  1. noun A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
  2. noun (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
  3. noun (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
  4. noun (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
  5. verb (intransitive) To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.
  6. verb (intransitive) To be inactive or negligent.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To lay to sleep.
  8. verb (transitive, obsolete) To stun; to stupefy.

Synonyms

sleep kip log Z's catch some Z's

Etymology

From Middle English slombren, slomren, frequentative of Middle English slummen, slumen (“to doze”), probably from Middle English slume (“slumber”), from Old English slūma, from Proto-Germanic *slūm- (“slack, loose, limp, flabby”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“loose, limp, flabby”).
Cognate with West Frisian slommerje, slûmerje (“to slumber”), Dutch sluimeren (“to slumber”), German schlummern (“to slumber, doze”), Swedish slummer (“to slumber”). By surface analysis, sloom + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman.
  2. verb To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
  3. verb To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.
  4. verb To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.]

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

Sanskrit

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