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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soar

UK /sɔː/ · US /soɹ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms soars soaring soared

  1. verb (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
  2. verb To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
  3. verb To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
  4. verb To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high. “The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.”
  5. verb (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
  6. verb (intransitive) To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.
  7. noun The act of soaring.
  8. noun An upward flight.
  9. proper noun A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.

Synonyms

aspire balloon zoom soar up soar upwards surge hang glide sailplane

Etymology

From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow, run”), similar to the Latin river name Saravus and Sar in Spain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
  2. verb Fig.: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
  3. noun The act of soaring; upward flight.
  4. adjective See 3d Sore. [Obs.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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