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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welt

/wɛlt/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms welts welting welted

  1. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.
  2. noun A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow or insect bite.
  3. noun A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
  4. noun (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
  5. noun A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
  6. noun In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
  7. noun In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
  8. noun In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
  9. noun (obsolete, shoemaking) A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam).
  10. verb (transitive) To cause to have welts; to beat.
  11. verb (transitive) To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
  12. verb (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
  13. verb (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
  14. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

wheal weal wale flog whip lather lash slash strap trounce

Etymology

From Middle English welten, from Old English weltan, wieltan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen, Danish vælte, Swedish välta, Icelandic velta.

First use appears c. 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it; as; (a) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
  2. noun A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. Welt joint, a joint, as of plates, made with a welt, instead of by overlapping the edges. See Weld, n., 1 (d).
  3. verb To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
  4. verb To wilt. [R.]

Etymology [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.]

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