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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stocking

UK /ˈstɒkɪŋ/ · US /ˈstɑkɪŋ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of stock

Forms stockings

  1. noun (footwear) A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear. “a pair of stockings”
  2. noun A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
  3. noun A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
  4. noun (forestry) A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
  5. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.

From stock + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
  2. verb To dress in GBs. Dryden.

Etymology [From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]

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

Sanskrit

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