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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sweating

/ˈswɛtɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of sweat

Forms sweatings

  1. noun The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
  2. noun (botany) Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
  3. noun (cooking, figurative) The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.
  4. adjective Giving off sweat. “A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.”

Synonyms

perspiration diaphoresis hidrosis sudation sudoresis asweat sudorific sudoriferous sweaty

Etymology

From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.

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

Sanskrit

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