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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

feeder

/ˈfidɚ/ noun

Forms feeders

  1. noun One who feeds, or gives food to another.
  2. noun The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
  3. noun One who feeds, or takes in food.
  4. noun One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
  5. noun That which is used to feed. “bird feeder”
  6. noun A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
  7. noun A branch line of a railway.
  8. noun A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.

Synonyms

blower eater tributary confluent affluent self-feeder bird feeder birdfeeder

Etymology

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
  2. noun One who furnishes incentives; an encourager. "The feeder of my riots." Shak.

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

Sanskrit

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