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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fury

UK /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/ · US /ˈfjʊɹ.i/ noun, proper noun

Forms furies

  1. noun Extreme anger.
  2. noun Strength or violence in action.
  3. noun An angry or malignant person.
  4. noun (obsolete) A thief.
  5. proper noun (Greek mythology) A female personification of vengeance.

Synonyms

apoplexy ire rage madness craze delirium frenzy hysteria ferocity fierceness furiousness vehemence violence wildness Eumenides Erinyes

Etymology

From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).

Friom Middle English Furie, from Latin Furiae, a name used for the three Erinyes, being the plural of furia ("rage").

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thief. [Obs.]
  2. noun Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.
  3. noun Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; --sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak.

Etymology [L. fur.]

Etymology [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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