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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burning

UK /ˈbɜːnɪŋ/ · US /ˈbɝnɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of burn

Forms burnings

  1. adjective So hot as to seem to burn (something). “the burning sun”
  2. adjective Feeling very hot. “burning skin”
  3. adjective Feeling great passion. “her burning heart”
  4. adjective Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful. “burning zeal”
  5. adjective Being keenly discussed. “a burning question; a burning issue”
  6. adjective On fire.
  7. noun The act by which something burns or is burned.
  8. noun A fire. “The burnings continued all day.”
  9. noun (cryptocurrencies) The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be obtained (called burn address, eater address or black hole), which usually should be available on the blockchain for anyone to review such a transaction. It’s a one-way address with no ability to reverse the transaction or withdraw the coins. For all practical purposes, the asset no longer exists (it has been “burned”). The act of burning effectively removes tokens from the available supply.
  10. noun A fiery pain.

Synonyms

ardent live combustion burn electrocution burning at the stake

Etymology

By surface analysis, burn + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective That burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery.
  2. adjective Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal.
  3. noun The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated. Burning fluid, any volatile illuminating oil, as the lighter petroleums (naphtha, benzine), or oil of turpentine (camphine), but esp. a mixture of the latter with alcohol.

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

Sanskrit

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

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