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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flavor

UK /ˈfleɪvə/ · US /ˈfleɪvɚ/ noun, verb

Also a form of flavour

Forms flavors flavoring flavored flavour flavuh

  1. noun The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. “The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.”
  2. noun Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste. “Flavor was added to the pudding.”
  3. noun A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc). “What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?”
  4. noun The characteristic quality of something. “the flavor of an experience”
  5. noun (informal, figurative) A kind or type. “Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.”
  6. noun (hip-hop slang) Style.
  7. noun (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  8. noun (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance. “the flavor of a rose”
  9. verb (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.

Synonyms

spirit tone feel feeling flavour look smell relish sapidity savor savour smack nip tang season

Etymology

From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
  2. noun That quality of anything which affects the taste; that quality which gratifies the palate; relish; zest; savor; as, the flavor of food or drink.
  3. verb To give flavor to; to add something (as salt or a spice) to, to give character or zest.

Etymology [OF. fleur, flaur (two syllables), odor, cf. F. fleurer to emit an odor, It. flatore a bad odor, prob. fr. L. flare to bow, whence the sense of exhalation. Cf. Blow.]

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