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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digger

UK /ˈdɪɡə/ · US /ˈdɪɡɚ/ noun

Forms diggers

  1. noun A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
  2. noun A tool for digging.
  3. noun (slang) A spade (playing card).
  4. noun One who digs.
  5. noun (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  6. noun (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
  7. noun (Australia, dated, by extension) a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
  8. noun (US, offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, slang, dated) A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.
  9. noun A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
  10. noun (historical) One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
  11. noun (obsolete, derogatory) One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
  12. noun (Internet) A user of the American news aggregator Digg.

Synonyms

excavator Shoshokie Shoshoko power shovel shovel

Etymology

From Middle English dyggar, equivalent to dig + -er.
In the sense of "Australian soldier", attributed to the considerable time that soldiers spent digging trenches during World War I.

* Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.

From Digg + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp (Zoöl.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.

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

Sanskrit

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

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