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

fringe

/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms fringes fringer fringest fringing fringed

  1. noun A decorative border. “the fringe of a picture”
  2. noun (by extension) A border or edging.
  3. noun (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
  4. noun A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
  5. noun (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views. “a fringe group of the party”
  6. noun The periphery of an area, especially a town or city. “He lives on the fringe of London.”
  7. noun (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
  8. noun (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across. “Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.”
  9. adjective Outside the mainstream.
  10. verb (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
  11. verb (transitive) To serve as a fringe; to border.

Synonyms

edge periphery outskirts bangs nonmainstream marginal peripheral alternative fringy outer boundary outskirt interference fringe bang

Etymology

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
  2. noun Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.
  3. verb To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.

Etymology [OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber, thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate.]

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

Sanskrit

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