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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flowing

UK /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/ · US /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of flow

Forms flowings

  1. noun The action of the verb to flow “the flowing of the river”
  2. adjective Tending to flow.
  3. adjective Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. “a flowing dress”

Synonyms

fluent streaming fluid fluminous fluxive free-flowing onrushing quick running flow streamlined aerodynamic sleek

Antonyms

stagnant standing

Etymology

From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective That flows or for flowing (in various sense of the verb); gliding along smoothly; copious. Flowing battery (Elec.), a battery which is kept constant by the flowing of the exciting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight.
  2. a. & n. from Flow, v. i. & t.

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

Sanskrit

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

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