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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waxen

/ˈwæksən/ adjective

Also a form of wax

  1. adjective (UK, dialectal) Grown.
  2. adjective Made of or covered with wax. “a waxen tablet”
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to wax.
  4. adjective Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
  5. adjective Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
  6. adjective (rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

Synonyms

waxy waxlike

Etymology

From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, ġeweaxen, from Proto-Germanic *wahsanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną (“to wax, grow, increase”), equivalent to wax + -en (past participle ending).

From Middle English waxen (“made of wax”), from Old English weaxen (“waxen, made of wax”), equivalent to wax + -en (“made of”).

Equivalent to wax + -en (plural simple present ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Made of wax. "The female bee, that . . . builds her waxen cells." Milton.
  2. adjective Covered with wax; waxed; as, a waxen tablet.

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