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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ring

/ɹɪŋ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rings ringing ringed rang rung

  1. noun A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
  2. noun (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc. “His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.”
  3. noun (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
  4. noun (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
  5. noun A piece of food in the shape of a ring. “onion rings”
  6. noun In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
  7. noun (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters. “Lick my ring!”
  8. noun (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
  9. verb (transitive) To enclose or surround. “The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.”
  10. verb (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it. “They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.”
  11. verb (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification. “We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.”
  12. verb (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring. “to ring a pig’s snout”
  13. verb (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
  14. verb (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
  15. verb (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
  16. noun The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. “The church bell's ring could be heard the length of the valley.”
  17. noun (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound. “The name has a nice ring to it.”
  18. noun (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something. “Her statements in court had a ring of falsehood.”
  19. noun (colloquial) A telephone call. “I’ll give you a ring when the plane lands.”
  20. noun Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.

Synonyms

annulus hoop torus rng halo doughnut anchor ring closed chain gang pack mob ringing tintinnabulation band peal resound echo reverberate knell call telephone call up phone surround environ skirt border

Etymology

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range.
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (whence Bulgarian кръг (krăg), Polish krąg, Russian круг (krug)).

From Middle English ryngen, from Old English hrinġan (“to ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *hringijan, from Proto-Germanic *hringijaną (“to ring”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch ringen (“to ring”), Danish ringe (“to ring”), Swedish ringa (“to ring”), Faroese ringja (“to ring up, telephone”), Icelandic hringja (“to ring”), West Frisian ringelje (“to ring”), Dutch rinkelen (“to ring, jingle”), Faroese ringla (“to tinkle, jingle”).

From a shortening of German Zahlring (“ring of numbers”), coined by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1892. Apparently first used in English in 1930, E. T. Bell, “Rings whose elements are ideals,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
  2. verb To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
  3. verb To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one. Now ringen trompes loud and clarion. Chaucer.
  4. verb To practice making music with bells. Holder.

Etymology [AS. hringan; akin to Icel. hringja, Sw. ringa, Dan. ringe, OD. ringhen, ringkelen. sq. root19.]

Etymology [AS. hring, hrinc; akin to Fries. hring, D. & G. ring, OHG. ring, hring, Icel. hringr, DAn. & SW. ring; cf. Russ. krug'. Cf. Harangue, Rank a row,Rink.]

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

Sanskrit

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