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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swelter

UK /ˈswɛl.tə/ · US /ˈswɛl.tɚ/ verb, noun

Forms swelters sweltering sweltered sulter

  1. verb (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
  2. verb (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
  3. verb (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
  4. noun Intense heat. “The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.”

Synonyms

burn up steam stew sweat buckets sweat like a pig sweb swelt

Etymology

From Middle English swelteren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt + -er (frequentative suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.
  2. verb To welter; to soak. [Obs.] Drayton.
  3. verb To oppress with heat. Bentley.
  4. verb To exude, like sweat. [R.] Shak.

Etymology [From Swelt, v. i.]

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