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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cam

/ˈkeə̯m/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms cams camming cammed

  1. noun A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. noun A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. noun (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
  4. noun (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
  5. noun (informal) Camera.
  6. noun (piracy) A bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater.
  7. verb To go on webcam.
  8. proper noun A river in Cambridgeshire, England, which passes through Cambridge and joins the Great Ouse.
  9. proper noun A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7400).
  10. proper noun A minor river in Gloucestershire which flows into the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
  11. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.

Synonyms

Granta River Cam Cam River

Etymology

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb.

Clipping of camera.

A back-formation from Cambridge; compare Middle English Cante and New Latin Camus, Chamus.

Inherited from Middle English Camme, Camne, from Old English *Camme, ultimately from a Celtic word for "crooked," Proto-Celtic *kambos, from late Proto-Indo-European *(s)kambo- (“crooked”), shared with Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it. (b) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  2. noun A ridge or mound of earth. [Prow. Eng.] Wright. Cam wheel (Mach.), a wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face; one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.
  3. adjective Crooked. [Obs.]

Etymology [Dan. kam comb, ridge; or cf. W. Gael., and Ir., cam bet. See 1st Come.]

Etymology [See Kam.]

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

Sanskrit

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