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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“entailing” is a form of

entail

/ɛnˈteɪl/ verb, noun

Forms entails entailing entailed intail

  1. verb (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke. “This activity will entail careful attention to detail.”
  2. verb (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
  4. noun That which is entailed.
  5. noun An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
  6. noun The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  7. noun (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Synonyms

imply mean implicate fee-tail

Etymology

From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).

From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which is entailed. Hence: (Law) (a) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
  2. noun Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.
  3. verb To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; --said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
  4. verb To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.]

Etymology [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See Entail, n.]

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