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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math

UK /mɑːθ/ · US /mæθ/ noun, verb

Also a form of maths

Forms maths mathing mathed

  1. noun (informal, uncountable, Canada, US, Philippines) Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math). “If you do the math, you'll see that it’s not such a bargain.”
  2. noun (informal, countable, Canada, US, Philippines) A math course or class. “They needed to take two more maths in order to graduate.”
  3. verb (colloquial, informal) To perform mathematical calculations or mathematical analysis; to do math
  4. verb (slang) To add up, compute; (by extension) to make sense. “Wait. This doesn't make sense. I mean, the math is not mathing.”
  5. noun (archaic) A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.

Synonyms

mathematics maths

Etymology

Clipping of mathematics.

From Middle English math, from Old English mǣþ (“a mowing, that which is mown, cutting of grass”), from Proto-Germanic *mēþą (“a mowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow”); equivalent to mow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with German Mahd (“a mowing, reaping”), West Frisian mêd (“area of land that can be mown in one day; domain, realm”). Related also to Old English mǣd (“mead, meadow, pasture”). See meadow.

Contraction of matha.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; --chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. mmawan to mow, G. mahd math. See Mow to cut (grass).]

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

Sanskrit

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