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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underneath

UK /ˌʌndəˈniːθ/ · US /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ adverb, preposition, adjective, noun

Forms underneaths

  1. adverb Below; in a place beneath. “I can't take my sweater off: I amn't wearing anything else on underneath.”
  2. adverb On the underside or lower face.
  3. preposition Under, below, beneath. “Underneath the water, all was calm.”
  4. preposition Under the control or power of. “There was little freedom underneath the Nazi jackboot.”
  5. adjective Under, lower. “You can have the underneath bunk.”
  6. noun The bottom of something. “The underneath of the aircraft was painted blue.”
  7. noun A background radio sound track played during a specific announcement or program.

Etymology

From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer. Equivalent to under- + neath.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.
  2. preposition Under; beneath; below.

Etymology [OE. undirnepe. See Under, and Beneath.]

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

Sanskrit

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