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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throng

UK /θɹɒŋ/ · US /θɹɔŋ/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms throngs thronging thronged thronger throngest

  1. noun A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
  2. noun A group of things; a host or swarm.
  3. verb (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  4. verb (intransitive) To congregate.
  5. verb (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  6. adjective Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
  7. adjective Busy; hurried.

Synonyms

crowd multitude concourse mob pack pile jam

Etymology

From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from *þrinhwaną (“to press, to push; to force”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”) and Persian ترنجیدن (Trenjidan, “to beat, to push”).
Compare typologically crowd (see there for more).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  2. noun A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
  3. verb To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
  4. verb To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Etymology [OE. þrong, þrang, AS. geþrang, fr. þringan to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. þryngva, þröngva, Goth. þriehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. þröng a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring.]

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

Sanskrit

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