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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feeling

UK /ˈfiː.lɪŋ/ · US /ˈfi.lɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of feel

Forms feelings

  1. adjective Emotionally sensitive. “Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.”
  2. adjective Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility. “He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.”
  3. noun Sensation, particularly through the skin. “The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.”
  4. noun Emotion; impression. “The house gave me a feeling of dread.”
  5. noun (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being. “You really hurt my feelings when you said that.”
  6. noun (usually in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire. “Many people still have feelings for their first love.”
  7. noun Intuition. “He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.”
  8. noun An opinion, an attitude.

Synonyms

impression belief notion opinion spirit tone feel flavor flavour look smell touch touch sensation tactual sensation tactile sensation intuitive feeling

Etymology

From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
  2. adjective Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
  3. noun The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
  4. noun An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.

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

Sanskrit

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

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