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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turning

UK /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ/ · US /ˈtɝ.nɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of turn

Forms turnings

  1. noun (UK, Ireland) A turn or deviation from a straight course. “Take the second turning on the left.”
  2. noun (field hockey) At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
  3. noun The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
  4. noun The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
  5. noun One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory. “Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.”
  6. noun (plural only) Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe. “The turnings get into your trouser turnups!”

Synonyms

swarf turn

Etymology

From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.

From Middle English turninge, turnynge, turninde, turnand, turnende, from Old English tyrnende, turniende, present participle of Old English tyrnan, turnian (“to turn”). Equivalent to turn + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander.
  2. noun The place of a turn; an angle or corner, as of a road.

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

Sanskrit

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

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