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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earthy

UK /ˈɜː.θi/ · US /ˈɝθi/ adjective

Forms earthier earthiest

  1. adjective Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth). “The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.”
  2. adjective Composed, or largely composed, of soil.
  3. adjective (figurative) Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural. “She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.”
  4. adjective (figurative) Coarse and unrefined, crude. “earthy humour”
  5. adjective Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
  6. adjective Covered with earth (mud, dirt).

Synonyms

terreous crude gross vulgar down-to-earth

Etymology

From Middle English erthy, equivalent to earth + -y. Compare German erdig (“earthy”), Swedish jordig (“earthy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." Milton.

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

Sanskrit

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