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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discord

UK /ˈdɪskɔːd/ · US /ˈdɪskɔɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms discords discording discorded

  1. noun Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.
  2. noun Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
  3. noun Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
  4. noun (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
  5. verb (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
  6. verb (transitive, rare) To untie things which are connected by a cord.
  7. proper noun (Internet, telecommunications, social media) An instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.
  8. noun A Discord server.
  9. noun A Discord account.

Synonyms

DS strife dissension discordance disagree disaccord

Etymology

Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde (“disagreement”); from Latin discordia, from discors (“disagreeing, disagreement”), from dis- (“apart”) + cor, cordis (“heart”).
Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above.

From dis- + cord (“tie, bind”).

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Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; --applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
  2. noun Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
  3. verb To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.

Etymology [OE. discord, descord, OF. discorde, descorde, F. discorde, from L. discordia, fr. discors, -cordis, discordant, disagreeable; dis- + cor, cordis, heart; cf. F. discord, n., and OF. descorder, discorder, F. discorder, to discord, L. discordare, from discors. See Heart, and cf. Discord, v. i.]

Etymology [OE. discorden, descorden, from the French. See Discord, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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