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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carrion

UK /ˈkæɹ.ɪ.ən/ · US /ˈkɛɹ.i.ən/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms carrions

  1. noun Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person. “Vultures feed on carrion.”
  2. noun (figurative) Corrupt or horrid matter.
  3. noun (obsolete, figurative) Filth, garbage.
  4. noun (obsolete, figurative, derogatory) The flesh of a living human body; also (Christianity), sinful human nature.
  5. noun A dead body; a carcass, a corpse.
  6. noun (figurative) An animal which is in poor condition or worthless; also, an animal which is a pest or vermin.
  7. noun (figurative, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
  8. adjective (chiefly derogatory) Pertaining to, or made up of, rotting flesh.
  9. adjective Disgusting, horrid, rotten.
  10. adjective (derogatory) Of the living human body, the soul, etc.: fleshly, mortal, sinful.
  11. adjective Very thin; emaciated, skeletonlike.
  12. adjective Of or pertaining to death.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

absolute zero assbucket asswipe badling blatherskite bugger cipher cockstain crumb custron dandiprat doink dirtbag douchebag drop kick fellow fritlag fuckbucket geek good-for-naught

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English caroyne (“corpse, carrion, something disgusting”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman careine, caroigne, charogne, and Old French charoigne, Northern Old French caˈronië, caroine, caroigne (modern French charogne), probably from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)) + -ia (suffix forming nouns). Doublet of crone.
The regular modern English form would be *carren, *carron /ˈkæɹən/ (this is found dialectally; see similar kyarn); the intervening /i/ is either a hypercorrection based on the analogy of words like merlin/merlion or, more likely, represents metathesis of the last element of the diphthong in caroyne.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
  2. noun A contemptible or worthless person; --a term of reproach. [Obs.]
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.

Etymology [OE. caroyne, OF. caroigne, F. charogne, LL. caronia, fr. L. caro flesh Cf. Crone, Crony.]

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

Sanskrit

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