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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sane

/seɪn/ adjective

Forms saner sanest SANEs

  1. adjective Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally. “a sane mind”
  2. adjective Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner. “a sane person”
  3. adjective Rational; reasonable; sensible. “Try to go to bed at a sane time before your exams.”

Synonyms

in one's right mind play with a full deck balanced compos mentis in possession of one's faculties lucid rational reasonable sound-minded

Antonyms

insane crazy unbalanced nonsane unsane

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sānus (“healthy; sane”). Doublet of sound.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; --said of the mind.
  2. adjective Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; --said of persons.

Etymology [L. sanus; cf. Gr. Sound, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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