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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eld

/ɛld/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms elder eldest elds elding elded elth eild eeld ild yeeld

  1. noun (rare or dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
  2. noun (archaic or poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
  3. noun (archaic or poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
  4. noun (archaic or poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Old.
  6. verb (intransitive, archaic, poetic or dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
  7. verb (intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
  8. verb (transitive, archaic or poetic) To make old, age.

Synonyms

elderliness age chair days codgerhood fogeydom geezerdom golden years old age oldhood senescence senectitude superannuation twilight years sunset years vetustity ager antique badge-cove cheeser coffin dodger years geezerhood

Etymology

From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Cognate with Scots eild (“age”), North Frisian jelde (“age”), German Älte (“age”), Danish ælde (“eld, age”), Icelandic elli (“eld, age”). Related also to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌳𐍃 (alds, “generation, age”), Old English alan (“to grow up, nourish”). More at old.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Old. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic]
  3. noun Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic]
  4. verb To age; to grow old. [Obs.]

Etymology [AS. eald.]

Etymology [AS. yldu, yldo, eldo, old age, fr. ald, eald, old. See Old.]

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