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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chandler

UK /ˈt͡ʃɑːndlə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈt͡ʃændləɹ/ noun, proper noun

Forms chandlers Candler Chander

  1. noun A person who makes or sells candles.
  2. noun (historical) A servant in a large household responsible for providing candles.
  3. noun A dealer in (a specific kind of) provisions or supplies; especially a ship chandler.
  4. proper noun An English surname originating as an occupation for a chandler (“maker or seller of candles”).
  5. proper noun A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  6. proper noun A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland; named for John Beals Chandler, 5th Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
  7. proper noun A village in the Shire of Nungarin, Western Australia; named for a local farmer.
  8. proper noun A town in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region, Le Rocher-Percé Regional County Municipality, Quebec.
  9. proper noun A ghost town in the Rural Municipality of Cymri No. 36, Saskatchewan.
  10. proper noun A city in Maricopa County, Arizona; named for early settler Dr. Alexander John Chandler.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Logan Township, Pike County, Indiana.
  12. noun A California variety of pomelo with a smoother skin than many other varieties.

Synonyms

candler Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler

Etymology

From Middle English chaundeler, from Old French chandelier, from Latin candelarius (“a candle-maker; a candlestick”), from the Latin candela (“a candle”); compare the English term candle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A maker or seller of candles.
  2. noun A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.

Etymology [F. chandelier a candlestick, a maker or seller of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See Candle, and cf. Chandelier.]

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

Sanskrit

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