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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fishing

/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of fish

Forms fishings

  1. noun (uncountable) The act of catching fish. “We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.”
  2. noun (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
  3. noun (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale. “This is good news for the fishing industry.”
  4. noun (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.

Synonyms

piscatology piscation piscicide piscicapture the gentle craft fishery the fish industry the seafood industry sportfishing

Etymology

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.

From fish + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act, practice, or art of one who fishes.
  2. noun A fishery. Spenser.
  3. adjective Pertaining to fishing; used in fishery; engaged in fishing; as, fishing boat; fishing tackle; fishing village. Fishing fly, an artificial fly for fishing.

Etymology [From Fishing, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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