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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wry

/ɹaɪ/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms wrier wryer wriest wryest wries wrying wried

  1. adjective Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
  2. adjective Dryly humorous; sardonic or ironic, usually in a way that suggests acknowledgement of a problem or difficult situation.
  3. adjective Twisted, bent, crooked.
  4. adjective Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
  5. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
  7. verb (transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
  8. noun (regional) Distortion.
  9. verb (transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.

Synonyms

droll dry ironic ironical

Etymology

From Middle English wrien, from Old English wrīġian (“to go, turn, twist, bend, strive, struggle, press forward, endeavor, venture”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Compare awry, wriggle.

From Middle English wryen, wrien, wreon, wrihen, from Old English wrēon (“to cover, clothe, envelop”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrīhan, from Proto-Germanic *wrīhaną (“to wrap, cover”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cover. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
  3. adjective Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
  4. verb To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

Etymology [AS. wreón.]

Etymology [Akin to OE. wrien to twist, to bend, AS. wrigian to tend towards, to drive.]

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

Sanskrit

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