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

walnut

UK /ˈwɔːlnʌt/ · US /ˈwɔlnət/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms walnuts

  1. noun A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
  2. noun A nut of the walnut tree.
  3. noun Wood of the walnut tree.
  4. noun Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
  5. adjective Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
  6. proper noun A city in Los Angeles County, California.
  7. proper noun A ghost town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, named for walnut trees.
  8. proper noun A township and village therein, in Bureau County, Illinois.
  9. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marshall County, Indiana.
  10. proper noun A minor city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
  11. proper noun A minor city in Crawford County, Kansas, named after Little Walnut Creek.
  12. proper noun A town in Tippah County, Mississippi.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, named after Walnut Creek.

Synonyms

walnut tree

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhahnuts (literally “foreigner-nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

Etymology [OE. walnot, AS. wealh-hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name of a Celtic tribe, in L. Volcae) + hnutu a nut; akin to D. walnoot, G. walnuss, Icel. valhnot, Sw. valnöt, Dan valnöd. See Nut, and cf. Welsh.]

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

Sanskrit

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