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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curtail

UK /kɜːˈteɪl/ · US /kɚˈteɪl/ verb, noun

Forms curtails curtailing curtailed

  1. verb (transitive, obsolete) To cut short the tail of (an animal). “Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.”
  2. verb (transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate. “When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.”
  3. verb (transitive, figuratively) To limit or restrict; to keep in check.
  4. noun (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

Synonyms

crop dock abbreviate behedge shorten control limit restrain restrict curb cut back clip cut short

Etymology

Alteration of curtal, from Old French courtault (“which has been shortened”), itself from court (“short”) (from Latin curtus) + -ault

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
  2. noun The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.

Etymology [See Curtal.]

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

Sanskrit

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