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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weld

/wɛld/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms welds welding welded woald wold

  1. noun A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
  2. noun The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
  3. verb (transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
  4. verb (transitive) To make something by welding. “I've welded a metal sculpture.”
  5. verb (transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. “The arrows pierced through the welded ranks of the opposing army.”
  6. noun The joint made by welding.
  7. verb (transitive, obsolete) To wield.
  8. proper noun A surname from Old English possibly deriving from the Old English word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
  9. proper noun A town in Franklin County, Maine, United States, named after Benjamin Weld.

Synonyms

dyer's rocket dyer's weed wild woad dyer's mignonette Reseda luteola Theodore Dwight Weld

Etymology

From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad. Dutch wouw is derived from the same basic form with -l-.

Alteration of well (“boil, rise”), probably influenced by the past participle, welled.
Compare cognate Danish vælde, Swedish välla (“boil, rise → to forge weld”).

From Old English weald (sense 2).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wield. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.
  3. noun Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
  4. verb To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

Etymology [OE. welde; akin to Scot. wald, Prov. G. waude, G. wau, Dan. & Sw. vau, D. wouw.]

Etymology [Probably originally the same word as well to spring up, to gush; perhaps from the Scand.; cf. Sw. välla to weld, uppvälla to boil up, to spring up, Dan. vælde to gush, G. wellen to weld. See Well to spring.]

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