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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dole

UK /dəʊl/ · US /doʊl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms doles doling doled

  1. noun (uncountable) Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  2. noun Distribution of alms or gifts.
  3. noun (uncountable, by extension) Money or other goods given as charity.
  4. noun (uncountable, informal, often with the) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits. “I get my dole paid twice a week.”
  5. noun (countable) A boundary; a landmark.
  6. noun (countable, UK dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
  7. verb (intransitive) To distribute alms, etc., in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
  8. verb (transitive) To distribute (as, alms) in small amounts; to share out (small portions of a meager resource).
  9. noun (archaic) A sorrow or grief; dolour.
  10. noun (law, Scotland) Dolus.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun Dole Constituency, a parliamentary constituency in Zanzibar.
  13. proper noun A commune in Jura department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
  14. proper noun A hamlet in Tirymynach community, Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN6386).

Synonyms

pancrack pogey pogy

Etymology

From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Polish dola (“fate, cut”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal. First attested in the late 12th c. The verb is first attested in the mid-15th c.

From Middle English dole (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

* As an English surname, from the archaic noun dole (“portion, share”).
* As a French surname, from Old French dolé, past participle of doler (“to regret”), from Latin doleo (“to hurt”).
* Also as a French surname, Americanized from Daul.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun grief; sorrow; lamentation. [Archaic]
  2. noun See Dolus.
  3. noun Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  4. noun That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance.

Etymology [OE. deol, doel, dol, OF. doel, fr. doloir to suffer, fr. L. dolere; perh. akin to dolare to hew.]

Etymology [L. dolus: cf. F. dol.]

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