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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flaming

/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Also a form of flame

Forms flamings

  1. adjective On fire with visible flames. “The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.”
  2. adjective Very bright and the color of flame.
  3. adjective (colloquial) Very showy, flamboyant. “I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming.”
  4. adjective (colloquial, typically of a gay man) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. “To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.”
  5. adjective (UK, Australia, colloquial) Damned, bloody. “I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!”
  6. adjective Very enthusiastic or passionate. “I hate it with a flaming passion!”
  7. noun An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
  8. noun Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
  9. noun (Internet slang) Vitriolic criticism. “You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.”
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

fire flame bally blinking bloody blooming crashing fucking fiery

Etymology

From the German surname for someone from Flanders, from Middle High German vlaeminc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. See Flanders, Fleming, and the variant Flemming.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.
  2. adjective Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior.

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

Sanskrit

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

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