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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“communed” is a form of

commune

UK /ˈkɒmjuːn/ · US /ˈkɑmjuːn/ noun, verb

Forms communes communing communed

  1. noun A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
  2. noun A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
  3. noun (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
  4. noun (uncountable, obsolete) Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
  5. noun (historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.
  6. verb To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
  7. verb (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb. “He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.”
  8. verb (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.

Synonyms

communicate

Etymology

From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common.

From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comuner (formed from comun (“common”)) and comunier (“to share”) (from Latin commūnico). Doublet of communicate.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
  2. verb To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.
  3. noun Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
  4. noun The commonalty; the common people. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [OF. communier, fr. L. communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Common, and cf. Communicate.]

Etymology [F., fr. commun. See Common.]

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