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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aspiration

/ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/ noun

Forms aspirations

  1. noun The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of). “Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor.”
  2. noun The action of aspirating.
  3. noun (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants. “In Cambodian, aspiration is phonemic, so /p/ and /pʰ/ are different phonemes.”
  4. noun (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
  5. noun (Gallicism, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
  6. noun (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.

Synonyms

ambition dream inhalation inspiration intake breathing in

Etymology

From aspirate + -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
  2. noun The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.

Etymology [L. aspiratio, fr. aspirare: cf. F. aspiration.]

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

Sanskrit

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