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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stealth

/stɛlθ/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms stealths stealthing stealthed

  1. noun (uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
  2. noun (archaic, countable) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
  3. verb (especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
  4. verb (slang, transitive) To subject (someone) to stealthing (sexual intercourse without a condom through deception, for example removing the condom mid-act).
  5. adjective Surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged.
  6. adjective (military, aviation, vehicles, technology) Having properties that diminish radar signatures.
  7. adjective (transgender) Hiding one's transgender status (in general or in specific areas of one's life, e.g. at work) after transition. “go stealth; be stealth; live stealth”

Synonyms

closeted stealing

Etymology

From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, to Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal, to sneak”) + *-iþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of stealing; theft. [Obs.]
  2. noun The thing stolen; stolen property. [Obs.] "Sluttish dens . . .

Etymology [OE. staple. See Steal, v. t.]

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