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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eating

UK /ˈiːtɪŋ/ · US /ˈi.tɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of eat

Forms eatings

  1. adjective Bred to be eaten. “eating chickens; eating quails”
  2. adjective Suitable to be eaten without being cooked. “Wait! That's not an eating apple.”
  3. noun The act of ingesting food.
  4. noun (informal, dialectal) Food; cooking, cuisine. “I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!”
  5. noun The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

Synonyms

dining consuming consumption feeding

Etymology

From Middle English etynge, from Old English eting.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
  2. noun Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

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

Sanskrit

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

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