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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sonorous

UK /ˈsɒn.əɹ.əs/ · US /ˈsɑːn.ɚ.əs/ adjective

Forms sonourous

  1. adjective Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound. “The highlight of the hike was the sonorous cave, which produced a ringing echo from the hiker’s shouts.”
  2. adjective Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse. “He was selected to give the opening speech thanks to his imposing, sonorous voice.”
  3. adjective Wordy or grandiloquent.
  4. adjective (linguistics, phonetics) Produced with a relatively open vocal tract and relatively little obstruction of airflow.

Synonyms

booming prolix sonoral canorous sesquipedalian boom-boom orotund remugient resonant resounding reverberant rotund tympanic vibrant heavy

Antonyms

high-pitched nonsonorous piping reedy tinny unsonorous whistling

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sonōrus, from sonor (“sound”), early 17th century.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
  2. adjective Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.

Etymology [L. sonorus, fr. sonor, -oris, a sound, akin to sonus a sound. See Sound.]

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

Sanskrit

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