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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saving

/ˈseɪ.vɪŋ/ noun, adjective, preposition

Also a form of save

Forms savings

  1. noun A reduction in cost or expenditure. “The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.”
  2. noun (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future. “I invested all my savings in gold.”
  3. noun (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
  4. noun (law, obsolete) Exception; reservation. “saving and transitional provisions”
  5. adjective (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
  6. adjective Preserving; rescuing.
  7. adjective Thrifty; frugal.
  8. adjective Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful. “a saving bargain”
  9. adjective Making reservation or exception. “a saving clause”
  10. adjective (in compounds) Relating to making a saving. “labour-saving”
  11. preposition Synonym of save (“except for”)
  12. preposition Without disrespect to.

Synonyms

save economy rescue deliverance delivery preservation redemptive redeeming

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective 1. Preserving; rescuing.
  2. adjective Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
  3. preposition With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to. "Saving your reverence." Shak. "Saving your presence." Burns.
  4. noun Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.

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

Sanskrit

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

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