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

“footsteps” is a form of

footstep

/ˈfʊtstɛp/ noun

Forms footsteps

  1. noun The mark or impression left by a foot; a track. “The child watched as his footsteps in the sand were washed away by the waves.”
  2. noun (by extension, sometimes figurative) The indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken. “To walk the footsteps of greatness requires that you start at the bottom of a long stair.”
  3. noun The sound made by walking, running etc. “The footsteps of the students echoed in the empty hall.”
  4. noun A step, as in a stair. “The garden path had a small footstep down to the main walkway.”
  5. noun The distance between one foot and the next when walking; a pace. “Mere footsteps away from the victim lay the murder weapon.”
  6. noun The act of taking a step. “Take one more footstep towards me, and I'll make you sorry!”
  7. noun (obsolete) An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

Synonyms

footprint step track point path trail footfall plod tread riser pace stride

Etymology

From Middle English fotstep, fotstappe, from Old English *fōtstepe, *fōtstæpe (attested only in derivative fōtstappel (“footstep”)), equivalent to foot + step. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foutstappe (“footstep”), West Frisian fuotstap (“footstep”), Dutch voetstap (“footstep”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The mark or impression of the foot; a track; hence, visible sign of a course pursued; token; mark; as, the footsteps of divine wisdom.
  2. noun An inclined plane under a hand printing press.

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

Sanskrit

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

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