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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meeting

UK /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ · US /ˈmitɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of meet

Forms meetings

  1. noun (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet. “Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.”
  2. noun A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. “We need to have a meeting about that soon.”
  3. noun (collective) The people at such a gathering. “What has the meeting decided.”
  4. noun An encounter between people, even accidental. “They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.”
  5. noun A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence. “Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.”
  6. noun (rustic US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  7. noun (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). “Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.”

Synonyms

powwow assembly convocation gathering meet-up rendezvous group meeting get together encounter coming together merging confluence

Etymology

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
  2. noun A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.

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

Sanskrit

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

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