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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Recollecting” is a form of

recollect

/ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/ verb, noun

Forms recollects recollecting recollected re-collect Recollet

  1. verb To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events. “I remember the concert clearly, but I can't recollect why I had decided to go there.”
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
  3. verb To compose oneself.
  4. noun A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

Synonyms

remember retrieve recall call back call up think

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
  2. verb Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; --sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
  3. noun A friar of the Strict Observance, --an order of Franciscans.

Etymology [Pref. re- + collect: cf. L. recolligere, recollectum, to collect. Cf. Recollet.]

Etymology [See Recollet.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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