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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ocean

UK /ˈəʊ.ʃən/ · US /ˈoʊ.ʃən/ noun, proper noun

Forms oceans

  1. noun (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
  2. noun (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean. “The island is surrounded by ocean”
  3. noun (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits. “the boundless ocean of eternity”
  4. noun A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
  5. proper noun A female given name from English, of modern usage.
  6. proper noun A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
  7. proper noun A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
  8. proper noun (mythology) The deity Oceanus.

Synonyms

the ogin sea

Etymology

From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ. Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”). Doublet of Oceanus/Okeanos.

From ocean (“sea”), inspired by the fashionable French female name Océane.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; --called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow.
  2. noun One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. Milton.

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

Sanskrit

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