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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going

UK /ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ/ · US /ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of go

Forms goings

  1. verb (in combination) Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly.
  2. noun A departure.
  3. noun The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. “The going was very difficult over the ice.”
  4. noun Progress. “We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.”
  5. noun (figurative) Conditions for advancing in any way. “Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.”
  6. noun (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
  7. noun (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something). “I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?”
  8. noun The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next. “Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.”
  9. adjective Likely to continue; viable. “He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.”
  10. adjective Current, prevailing. “The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.”
  11. adjective (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available. “He has the easiest job going.”
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

departure going away leaving passing loss exit expiration release sledding

Etymology

Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).
Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang.

go + -ïng

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.
  2. noun Departure. Milton.

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

Sanskrit

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