Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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yielding

/ˈjiːldɪŋ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Also a form of yield

Forms yieldings

adjective Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
noun A concession.
proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

compliant pliant tractable amenable biddable complaisant controllable docile governable indulgent manageable maniable meek passive rulable giving up surrender concession conceding

Etymology

From Middle English ȝeldinge, ȝeldynge, ȝeldinde, ȝeldand, from Old English ġyldende, ġieldende, present participle of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”), equivalent to yield + -ing.

From Middle English yelding, yeldinge, ȝeldynge, equivalent to yield + -ing.

Habitational surname from the villages of Yeldon, in Bedfordshire, or Yalding, in Kent.

Webster’s 1913

adjective Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill.

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

Sanskrit

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

अप्स ap-sa giving or yielding (ap ) water.
अवाय avāya giving way, yielding, complying.
दुहत् duhat milking; yielding, granting, parting with.
प्रस्रविन् pra-sravin pouring forth; yielding milk; rich in milk.
दोहीयस् dohīyas giving much milk, yielding abundance of milk.
अधेनु a-dhenu yielding no milk or advantage; not nourishing.
अनुद anu-da yielding, emulating others in giving, a follower.
दुह duha (at the end of a comp.) milking; yielding, granting.

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