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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flourish

/ˈflʌɹ.ɪʃ/ verb, noun

Forms flourishes flourishing flourished florysh floryshe

  1. verb (intransitive) To thrive or grow well. “The barley flourished in the warm weather.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To prosper or fare well. “The town flourished with the coming of the railway.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence. “His writing flourished before the war.”
  4. verb (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
  5. verb (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with. “They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.”
  6. verb (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
  7. verb (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
  8. verb (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
  9. noun A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag. “With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.”
  10. noun An ornamentation. “His signature ended with a flourish.”
  11. noun (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare. “The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.”
  12. noun (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.

Synonyms

brandish fanfare tucket boom thrive expand prosper fly high wave

Etymology

From Middle English floryschen, from Old French florir (via the arrhizotonic stem floriss-), from Late Latin flōrīre, from Latin flōrēre, from Latin flōrem (“flower”, noun). Corresponds to flower + -ish.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
  2. verb To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
  3. verb To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [Obs.]
  4. verb To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish.]

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

Sanskrit

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