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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squint

/skwɪnt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms squints squinting squinted

  1. verb (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. “The children squinted to frighten each other.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
  3. verb (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
  4. verb (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
  5. verb (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  6. verb (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely. “to squint an eye”
  7. verb Look askance. “Congress clearly is squinting at the prospect of increased funding for the program.”
  8. noun An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
  9. noun The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. “He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.”
  10. noun (informal) A quick or sideways glance; a short look; a peep.
  11. noun A hagioscope.
  12. noun (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
  13. noun (architecture) An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.
  14. adjective Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
  15. adjective (Scotland) askew, not level

Synonyms

skew skelly strabismus squinch askance askant asquint squint-eyed squinty sidelong

Etymology

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; --said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
  2. adjective Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.
  3. verb To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
  4. verb To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; --to be cross-eyed.

Etymology [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinisch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. Askant, Askance, Asquint.]

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

Sanskrit

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