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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pond

UK /pɒnd/ · US /pɑnd/ noun, proper noun, verb

Forms ponds the pond ponding ponded

  1. noun An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  2. noun An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
  3. proper noun (informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean. “I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.”
  4. verb (transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
  5. verb (transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  6. verb (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

pool

Etymology

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.

Clipping of ponder.

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound.
* As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake. "Through pond or pool." Milton.
  2. verb To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  3. verb To ponder. [Obs.]

Etymology [Probably originally, an inclosed body of water, and the same word as pound. See Pound an inclosure.]

Etymology [See Ponder.]

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

Sanskrit

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