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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fraise

/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ verb, noun

Forms fraises fraising fraised

  1. verb (transitive, archaic) To put in danger, in terror, or at risk.
  2. noun A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
  3. noun (historical) A ruff worn (especially by women) in the 16th century.
  4. noun (historical) An embroidered scarf with its ends crossed over the chest and pinned, worn (especially by women) in the 19th century.
  5. noun A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
  6. noun A tool for cutting the teeth of a timepiece's wheel to correct inaccuracies.
  7. verb (military) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
  8. noun (heraldry) A stylized strawberry with leaves.
  9. noun (UK, dialect, dated) Commotion.

Etymology

From Middle English fraisen, from Old English frāsian (“to ask, try, tempt”), from Proto-Germanic *fraisōną (“to attempt, try”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to attempt, try; risk, peril”). Cognate with West Frisian freezje (“to fear”), Dutch vrezen (“to fear, dread, be afraid”), German freisen (“to put at risk, endanger, terrify”).
Alternatively the Middle English fraisen was borrowed from Middle Dutch vreisen, vresen (“to be afraid; to endanger, threaten, frighten”), from Old Dutch *freisōn, *frēsōn, from the same Proto-West Germanic source above.

Borrowed from French fraise (“ruff”), fraiser; compare French friser (“curl”), perhaps from Provençal frezar; ultimately from Germanic.

Borrowed from French fraise (“strawberry”), from earlier *fraige, from Latin frāga.

See froise.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. [Obs.]
  2. noun A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
  3. noun A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
  4. verb To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. Wilhelm.

Etymology [See Froise.]

Etymology [F. fraise, orig., a ruff, cf. F. frise frieze, E. frieze a coarse stuff.]

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