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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transpire

UK /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/ · US /tɹænˈspaɪ̯ɚ/ verb

Forms transpires transpiring transpired

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
  2. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To perspire.
  3. verb (botany, intransitive) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
  4. verb (intransitive) To become known; to escape from secrecy. “It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.”
  5. verb (loosely, intransitive) To happen, take place.

Synonyms

sweat come to light emerge develop come about come to pass occur bechance befall behap belimp betide betime beworth chance crop up evene eventuate go on hap transpirate

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
  2. verb To evaporate from living cells.
  3. verb To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.
  4. verb To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

Etymology [F. transpirer; L. trans across, through + spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]

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