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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sleepy

/ˈsliːpi/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms sleepier sleepiest sleepies sleeby

  1. adjective Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  2. adjective Suggesting tiredness.
  3. adjective Tending to induce sleep. “a sleepy drink or potion”
  4. adjective (figurative) Dull; lazy.
  5. adjective (figurative) Quiet; without bustle or activity. “a sleepy English village”
  6. noun (informal, uncountable or in the plural) The gum that builds up in the eye; sleep, gound.
  7. noun (Australia) Shingleback.
  8. verb (childish) To sleep.

Synonyms

tired jaded weary bleareyed bleary bleary-eyed bone-tired bushed tired out spent wrecked drained dog-tired dog-weary exhausted fatigued forfairn forlagen forworn heavyeyed sleepy-eyed sleepyheaded

Antonyms

nonsleepy unsleepy

Etymology

From Middle English slepy, from Old English *slǣpiġ (attested in unslǣpiġ (“sleepless”)), from Proto-West Germanic *slāpag (“sleepy”), equivalent to sleep + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian släipich (“sleepy”), West Frisian sliepich (“sleepy”), dialectal Dutch slapig, slepig (“sleepy”), German Low German slapig, släpig, slöpig (“sleepy”), archaic German schlafig (“sleepy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak.
  2. adjective Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer.

Etymology [AS. sl. See Sleep, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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