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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radiant

/ˈɹeɪ.di.ənt/ adjective, noun

Forms radiants radient

  1. adjective Radiating light and/or heat. “the radiant sun”
  2. adjective Emitted as radiation.
  3. adjective (figurative) Beaming with vivacity and happiness. “a radiant face”
  4. adjective (figurative) Strikingly beautiful.
  5. adjective Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
  6. adjective (heraldry, of a bearing) Giving off rays. “the sun radiant”
  7. adjective (botany) Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
  8. noun A point source from which radiation is emitted.
  9. noun (astronomy) The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
  10. noun (geometry) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

Synonyms

beaming beamy effulgent refulgent

Etymology

From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Emitting or proceeding as from a center; [U.S.] rays; radiating; radiate.
  2. adjective Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun. Mark what radiant state she spreads. Milton.
  3. noun The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
  4. noun A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

Etymology [L. radians, -antis, p. pr. of radiare to emit rays or beams, fr. radius ray: cf. F. radiant. See Radius, Ray a divergent line.]

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

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