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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“swirling” is a form of

swirl

UK /swɜːl/ · US /swɝl/ verb, noun

Forms swirls swirling swirled

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To twist or whirl, as an eddy. “I swirled my brush around in the paint.”
  2. verb To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl.
  3. verb (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
  4. verb (African-American Vernacular, dated) To mingle interracially.
  5. noun A whirling eddy.
  6. noun A twist or coil of something.
  7. noun (fishing) The upward rushing of a fish through the water to take the bait.
  8. noun (African-American Vernacular, dated) Interracial mingling (e.g. dating, sex, marriage, etc.). “She told that white boy she wasn't down with the swirl and to take himself a hike.”
  9. noun (cooking) Synonym of pinwheel (“food product with spiral layers”). “I'm baking some cheese swirls.”

Synonyms

pinwheel roll rollup whirl vortex convolution twirl twiddle eddy purl whirlpool

Etymology

From Middle English swirlen (“to eddy, swirl”), probably from Old Norse *svirla (“to swirl”), a frequentative form of Old Norse sverra (“to swing, twirl”). Cognate with Scots swirl, sworl (“to eddy, swirl”), Norwegian Nynorsk svirla (“to whirl around; swirl”), Swedish sorla (“to murmur, buzz”), Dutch zwirrelen (“to swirl”). Compare also West Frisian swiere (“to reel, whirl”), Dutch zwieren (“to reel, swing around”), German Low German swirren (“to whizz, whirl or buzz around”), German schwirren (“to whirr, whizz, buzz”), Swedish svirra (“to whirr about, buzz, hum”), Danish svirre (“to whizz, whirr”). Related to English swarm.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To whirl, or cause to whirl, as in an eddy. "The river swirled along." C. Kingsley.
  2. noun A whirling motion; an eddy, as of water; a whirl. "The silent swirl of bats." Mrs. Browning.

Etymology [Akin to Norw. svirla to whirl, freq. of sverra to whirl, Dan. svirre, G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz. *177. See Swarm, n.]

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