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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discern

UK /dɪˈsɜːn/ · US /dɪˈsɝn/ verb

Forms discerns discerning discerned

  1. verb (transitive) To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
  2. verb (transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
  3. verb (transitive) To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate. “He was too young to discern right from wrong.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To perceive differences.

Synonyms

ken discriminate behold see spy distinguish spot recognize recognise pick out make out tell apart

Etymology

From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to distinguish”); see certain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
  2. verb To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference.
  3. verb To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.
  4. verb To make cognizance. [Obs.] Bacon.

Etymology [F. discerner, L. discernere, discretum; dis- + cernere to separate, distinguish. See Certain, and cf. Discreet.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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