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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

yell

/jɛl/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms yells yelling yelled

  1. verb (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
  2. verb (transitive) To convey by shouting. “He yelled directions to the party from the car.”
  3. verb (informal, usually followed by at) To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner. “If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.”
  4. noun A shout.
  5. noun A phrase to be shouted.
  6. adjective (Ulster) dry (of cow)
  7. proper noun The second-largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, United States, named after Archibald Yell.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

call cry holler shout outcry vociferation shout out scream hollo squall

Etymology

From Middle English ȝellen, yellen, from Old English ġiellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

The name of the Shetland Island is from Pictish, cognate with Welsh iâl (“pastureland”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *yalom (“clearing”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
  2. verb To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
  3. noun A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

Etymology [OE. yellen, , AS. giellan, gillan, gyllan; akin to D. gillen, OHG. gellan, G. gellen, Icel. gjalla, Sw. gälla to ring, resound, and to AS., OS., & OHG. galan to sing, Icel. gala. Cf. 1st Gale, and Nightingale.]

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

Sanskrit

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