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

“pronouncing” is a form of

pronounce

/pɹəˈnaʊns/ verb, noun

Forms pronounces pronouncing pronounced

  1. verb (transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously. “I hereby pronounce you man and wife.”
  2. verb (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion. “The doctor pronounced them legally dead.”
  3. verb (transitive) To pronounce dead.
  4. verb (intransitive) To pass judgment. “The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd.”
  5. verb (transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
  6. verb (passive voice) To sound like. “The Icelandic double l in Eyjafjallajökull is pronounced tl.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To produce the components of speech. “Actors must be able to pronounce perfectly or deliberately disabled.”
  8. verb (transitive) To read aloud.
  9. noun Eggcorn of pronouns.

Synonyms

articulate enounce sound out enunciate say label judge

Etymology

Recorded since c.1330 as Middle English pronouncen (“to utter, declare officially”), from Old French prononcier, from Latin prōnūntiō, itself from prō- (“forth, out, in public”) + nūntiō (“to announce”) from nūntius (“messenger”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
  2. verb To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
  3. verb To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle.
  4. verb To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Etymology [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare; pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See Announce.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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