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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shearing

adjective, noun

Also a form of shear

Forms shearings

  1. adjective Tending to cut or tear.
  2. noun The act or operation of removing the fleece from a sheep, llama etc. with shears or a shearing machine
  3. noun The removal of nap from cloth.
  4. noun The material cut off in this way. “the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth”
  5. noun Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
  6. noun (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
  7. noun The act or operation of dividing with shears. “the shearing of metal plates”
  8. noun The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  9. noun (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Etymology

From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  2. noun The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.

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

Sanskrit

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