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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footprint

/ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/ noun

Forms footprints

  1. noun The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.
  2. noun Space required by a piece of equipment. “This computer has a smaller footprint.”
  3. noun (computing) The amount of hard drive space required for a program.
  4. noun (computing) The audit trail left by a crashed program.
  5. noun A trace left behind that gives evidence of some action having occurred.
  6. noun (figurative, in the plural) What a person has done before, as a profession or lifestyle, serving as a model for others. “He is following in his father's footprints.”
  7. noun The surface space occupied by a structure. “the footprint of a building”
  8. noun A company's geographic market presence. “The store, which is slated to open next month, increases the company's footprint in the market to 14 locations.”

Synonyms

footmark ichnogram step

Etymology

From foot + print.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as, "Footprints of the Creator."

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

Sanskrit

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