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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furnace

UK /ˈfɜːnɪs/ · US /ˈfɝnɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms furnaces furnacing furnaced

  1. noun An industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics. “Plans for the next phase include furnaces capable of inert atmospheres and partial vacuums.”
  2. noun (US, Canada) A device that provides heat for a building. “HVAC services include furnace maintenance.”
  3. noun (colloquial, figurative) Any area that is excessively hot. “The busy kitchen became a sweltering furnace.”
  4. noun (figurative) A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. “forged in the furnace of fierce competition”
  5. verb To heat in a furnace.
  6. verb To exhale like a furnace.
  7. proper noun A surname, variant of Furness.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English forneys, borrowed from Old French fornais, from Latin fornāx.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.
  2. noun A place or time of punishment, affiction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv. 20. Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores.
  3. noun To throw out, or exhale, as from a furnace; also, to put into a furnace. [Obs. or R.]

Etymology [OE. fornais, forneis, OF. fornaise, F. fournaise, from L. fornax; akin to furnus oven, and prob. to E. forceps.]

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

Sanskrit

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