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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border

UK /ˈbɔː.də/ · US /ˈbɔɹ.dɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms borders bordering bordered

  1. noun The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. “The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.”
  2. noun The outer edge of something. “the borders of the garden”
  3. noun A decorative strip around the edge of something. “There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.”
  4. noun A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
  5. noun (UK, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing.
  6. noun (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
  7. verb (transitive) To put a border on something.
  8. verb (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
  9. verb (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of. “Denmark borders Germany to the south.”
  10. verb (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with). “Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.”
  11. verb (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

boundary line borderline delimitation mete margin perimeter edge molding moulding surround environ ring skirt bound frame frame in adjoin abut march butt butt against butt on

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
Not cognate to beard, although inside Germanic there may have been influence between the senses of these two roots: see e.g. Old Norse barð (“edge”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
  2. noun A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
  3. verb To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; --with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
  4. verb To approach; to come near to; to verge.

Etymology [OE. bordure, F. bordure, fr. border to border, fr. bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., and cf. Bordure.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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