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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stumble

/ˈstʌmbəl/ noun, verb

Forms stumbles stumbling stumbled

  1. noun A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
  2. noun An error or blunder.
  3. noun A clumsy walk.
  4. verb To misstep; to walk or run clumsily; to trip or fall. “He stumbled over a rock.”
  5. verb To make mistakes, to have trouble. “I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.”
  6. verb To cause to stumble or trip.
  7. verb To mislead, to cause to err or fall.
  8. verb (intransitive) To make a discovery unexpectedly or accidentally; to chance, come, or happen (upon a person or thing) (with onto, across, on, upon). “We stumbled onto the answer without even trying.”

Synonyms

blooper blunder boo-boo defect error fault faux pas fluff gaffe lapse mistake slip thinko err trip up confound lurch stagger trip trip-up misstep falter bumble hit slip up

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
  2. verb To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
  3. verb To cause to stumble or trip.
  4. verb Fig.: To mislead; to confound; to perplex; to cause to err or to fall.

Etymology [OE. stumblen, stomblen; freq. of a word akin to E. stammer. See Stammer.]

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

Sanskrit

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