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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eager

UK /ˈiːɡə/ · US /ˈiɡɚ/ adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of eagre

Forms eagerer eagerest eagers eagering eagered aigre eagre

  1. adjective Desirous; keen to do or obtain something. “Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.”
  2. adjective (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required. “an eager algorithm”
  3. adjective (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
  4. adjective (obsolete, literal) Sharp; sour; acid.
  5. adjective (obsolete, figurative) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
  6. verb (intransitive) To be or become eager.
  7. verb (intransitive) To express eagerness.
  8. verb (transitive) To make or encourage to be eager
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bursting keen solicitous raring alacritous athirst fain hot tidal bore bore eagre aegir

Antonyms

averse disinclined reluctant unwilling uneager

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English egre, eger, from Old French aigre, egre (modern French aigre), from Latin ācrus, variant of ācer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

See eagre.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Sharp; sour; acid. [Obs.] "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak.
  2. adjective Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. [Obs.] "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words." Shak.
  3. noun Same as Eagre.

Etymology [OE. egre sharp, sour, eager, OF. agre, aigre, F. aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. a point; fr. a root signifying to be sharp. Cf. Acrid, Edge.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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