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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dying

/ˈdaɪ.ɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of die dye

Forms dyings

  1. adjective Approaching death; about to die; moribund. “The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!”
  2. adjective Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end. “In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.”
  3. adjective Pertaining to death, or the moments before death. “His dying words were of his mother.”
  4. noun The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.

Synonyms

death demise anxious

Antonyms

nascent

Etymology

From die + -ing.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
  3. noun The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

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

Sanskrit

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

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