Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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longer

UK /ˈlɒŋ.ə/ · US /ˈlɔŋ.ɚ/ noun

Also a form of long

Forms longers

noun One who longs or yearns for something.

Synonyms

thirster yearner

Etymology

From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”).

Webster’s 1913

noun One who longs for anything.

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

Sanskrit

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

द्राघीयस् drāghīyas longer, very or exceedingly long.
अशैक्ष a-śaikṣa an Arhat (lit. ‘no longer a pupil’).
विजोषस् vi-joṣas disunited, estranged from each other, no longer friends.
अनुपधिशेष an-upadhi-śeṣa that in which there is not longer a condition of individulity (?).
कुदिष्टि ku-diṣṭi (see 1. ku ), a measure of length, longer than a Diṣṭi, shorter than a Vitasti.
साग्र sāgra with a surplus, more than; ( am ), ind., Vedic for a longer period, for a whole life.
प्राजहित prājahita a Gārhapatya fire maintained during a longer period of time, an older Gārhapatya fire.
परामृत parā-mṛta one who has overcome death or is no longer subject todeath. (For 1. parāmṛta see p. 534, col. 3.)

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