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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intermittent

UK /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/ · US /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/ adjective, noun

Forms intermittents

  1. adjective Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span. “The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.”
  2. adjective (specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year. “The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.”
  3. noun (medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.

Synonyms

periodic periodical patchy spasmodic broken fitful ragged catchy discontinuous intermissive stop-start

Antonyms

steady constant continual

Etymology

From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; --applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever.
  2. noun An intermittent fever or disease. Dunglison.

Etymology [L. intermittens, -entis, p. pr. of intermittere: cf. F. intermittent.]

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

Sanskrit

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