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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trance

UK /tɹɑːns/ · US /tɹæns/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms trances trancing tranced traunce

  1. noun (countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.
  2. noun (countable) A state of awareness, concentration, or focus that filters experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being).
  3. noun (countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
  5. verb (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
  6. verb (obsolete outside UK, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
  7. verb (obsolete outside UK, dialectal, intransitive) To pass across or over; to traverse.
  8. verb (obsolete outside UK, dialectal, intransitive) To travel quickly over a long distance.
  9. noun (obsolete outside UK, dialectal) A tedious journey.
  10. proper noun (derogatory, offensive) France.

Synonyms

trounce enchantment spell capture enamour catch becharm enamor captivate beguile charm fascinate bewitch entrance enchant

Etymology

From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).

The verb is derived from Middle English traunce, trauncen, trancen (“to move about (?); to prance (?); to trample the ground”) (whence modern English trounce with the same senses, which see for more). The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Possibly a mix of trans + France.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tedious journey. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  2. noun A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.
  3. verb To entrance.
  4. verb To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic]

Etymology [F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die, L. transire to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit.]

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