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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submerge

UK /səbˈmɜːd͡ʒ/ · US /səbˈmɝd͡ʒ/ verb

Forms submerges submerging submerged

  1. verb (intransitive) To sink out of sight. “The submarine submerged in the water.”
  2. verb (transitive) To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in. “In films, many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.”
  3. verb (transitive, often in the passive voice) To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
  4. verb (transitive, figurative, often in the passive voice) To engulf or overwhelm. “Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.”
  5. verb (transitive, figurative) To drown or suppress.

Synonyms

immerse submerse drown overwhelm inundate deluge

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin submergere, from sub (“under”) + mergere (“to plunge”). By surface analysis, sub- + merge.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put under water; to plunge.
  2. verb To cover or overflow with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown.
  3. verb To plunge into water or other fluid; to be buried or covered, as by a fluid; to be merged; hence, to be completely included.

Etymology [L. submergere, submersum; sub under + mergere to plunge: cf. F. submerger. See Merge.]

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

Sanskrit

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