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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frail

/fɹeɪl/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms frailer frailest frails frailing frailed

  1. adjective Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
  2. adjective Weak; infirm.
  3. adjective (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
  4. adjective Mentally fragile.
  5. adjective Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
  6. noun (dated, slang) A girl.
  7. verb To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
  8. noun A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
  9. noun The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
  10. noun A rush for weaving baskets.
  11. noun Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
  12. noun (England, dialectal, obsolete) Synonym of flail.

Synonyms

farasola flail fallible imperfect weak delicate fragile

Antonyms

robust

Etymology

From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.

From Middle English frayel, from Old French frael, fraiel, of unknown origin; possibly a dissimilatory variant of flael, flaiel (“flail”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
  2. noun The quantity of raisins --about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, --contained in a frail.
  3. adjective Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
  4. adjective Tender. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. fraiel, fraile, OF. fraiel, freel, frael, fr. LL. fraellum.]

Etymology [OE. frele, freile, OF. fraile, frele, F. frêle, fr. L. fragilis. See Fragile.]

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

Sanskrit

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