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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underlay

/ʌndəɹˈleɪ/ verb, noun

Also a form of underlie

Forms underlays underlaying underlaid

  1. verb (transitive) To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under. “We underlaid the carpet with felt.”
  2. verb (transitive) To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
  3. verb (transitive) To put a tap on (a shoe).
  4. verb (mining, ambitransitive, of a vein, fault, or lode) To incline from the vertical.
  5. noun A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
  6. noun A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
  7. noun Anything that is underlaid.
  8. noun (printing, historical) A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
  9. noun (music) Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes. “The underlay in bar 3 is unclear in Handel's manuscript.”

Synonyms

hade carpet pad rug pad underlayment

Etymology

From Middle English underleyen, from Old English underleċġan (“to underlay, prop, support”), equivalent to under- + lay. Cognate with Dutch onderleggen (“to lay or put under”), German unterlegen (“to underlay”), Swedish underlägga (“to underlay”).

From Middle English underlay, underlei, equivalent to under- + lay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lay beneath; to put under.
  2. verb To raise or support by something laid under; as, to underlay a cut, plate, or the like, for printing. See Underlay, n., 2.
  3. verb To incline from the vertical; to hade; --said of a vein, fault, or lode.
  4. noun The inclination of a vein, fault, or lode from the vertical; a hade; --called also underlie.

Etymology [AS. underlecgan. See Under, and Lay, v. t.]

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