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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birch

UK /bɜːtʃ/ · US /bɝt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms birches birching birched Birchs

  1. noun Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
  2. noun A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
  3. noun A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
  4. noun A birch-bark canoe.
  5. verb (transitive) To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
  6. verb (transitive) To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun A nickname of the surname Birchall.
  9. proper noun A village and civil parish in Colchester borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL9419).
  10. proper noun A small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8507).
  11. proper noun A township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States.
  12. proper noun An extinct town in Eureka County, Nevada, United States.
  13. proper noun A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in the town of Sanborn, Ashland County, Wisconsin.

Synonyms

makepeace switch birch tree birch rod birchen birken

Etymology

From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.
Compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke, variant of *berkō (compare Dutch berk, Danish birk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), Russian берёза (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”), Albanian bredh.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).
  2. noun The wood or timber of the birch.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the birch; birchen.
  4. verb To whip with a birch rod or twig; to flog.

Etymology [OE. birche, birk, AS. birce, beorc; akin to Icel. björk, Sw. björk, Dan. birk, D. berk, OHG. piricha, MHG. birche, birke, G. birke, Russ. bereza, Pol. brzoza, Serv. breza, Skr. bh. sq. root254. Cf. 1st Birk.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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