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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carrot

/ˈkæɹət/ noun, verb

Forms carrots carroting carroted

  1. noun A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
  2. noun A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).
  3. noun (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
  4. noun (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
  5. noun (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
  6. noun (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person
  7. verb (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Synonyms

more cultivated carrot Daucus carota sativa

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Middle English more, from Old English more, moru (“edible root, parsnip, carrot”), related to German Möhre (“carrot”).
* Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
* Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of many varieties.
  2. noun The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color.

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

Sanskrit

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