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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deeply

/ˈdi(ː)pli/ adverb

Forms deeplier deepliest

  1. adverb To a deep extent or degree; very greatly. “I am deeply concerned about this matter.”
  2. adverb So as to extend far down or far into something. “The surface of the planet was deeply cratered.”
  3. adverb At depth. “In this part of the river salmon swim deeply.”
  4. adverb In a profound, not superficial, manner. “I thought deeply about the problem.”
  5. adverb In large volume. “breathe deeply, drink deeply”
  6. adverb (in relation to sleep) Soundly; so as to be hard to rouse.
  7. adverb (of flavour, colour, etc.) Richly.

Synonyms

deep profoundly

Etymology

From Middle English deply, depely, from Old English dēoplīċe (“deeply”, adverb), from dēoplīc (“deep”), equivalent to deep + -ly.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
  2. adverb Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.

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

Sanskrit

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

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