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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underfoot

UK /ʌndəˈfʊt/ · US /ʌndɚˈfʊt/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb

Forms underfoots underfooting underfooted

  1. adjective Situated under one's foot or feet.
  2. adjective In the way; placed so as to obstruct or hinder.
  3. adjective Downtrodden; abject.
  4. adverb Under one's foot or feet. “The workers were all big, burly, hard-hearted men, tromping through the marsh in their heavy boots without sparing so much as a single thought for the masses of tiny frogs they crushed underfoot.”
  5. adverb In the way; situated so as to obstruct or hinder. “It would be easier to do a big project like that someday when we don't have a bunch of newcomers underfoot.”
  6. noun A storage compartment that sits below the deck of a boat.
  7. verb (transitive) To provide a footing beneath; to shore up or underpin.
  8. verb (accounting) To assign a column summary that is less than the sum of all the entries in that column.

Etymology

From Middle English underfoote, underfote, equivalent to under- + foot. Cognate with Middle Dutch ondervoet (“underfoot”). Compare also Middle Low German undervôt (“pedestal, base”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Under the feet; underneath; below. See Under foot, under Foot, n.
  2. adjective Low; base; abject; trodden down.

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