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

“immersed” is a form of

immerse

UK /ɪˈmɜːs/ · US /ɪˈmɜɹs/ verb, adjective

Forms immerses immersing immersed

  1. verb (transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas). “Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.”
  2. verb (transitive) To involve or engage deeply. “The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.”
  3. verb (transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

Synonyms

submerge plunge steep engulf engross absorb soak up swallow swallow up bury eat up

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immergō, from in + mergō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
  2. verb To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
  3. verb To baptize by immersion.

Etymology [L. immersus, p. p. of immergere. See Immerge.]

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

Sanskrit

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