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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frolic

UK /ˈfɹɒlɪk/ · US /ˈfɹɑlɪk/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms frolics frolicking frolicked frolick

  1. adjective (now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
  2. adjective (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
  3. verb (intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. “We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.”
  4. verb (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.
  5. noun Gaiety; merriment.
  6. noun A playful antic.
  7. noun (obsolete, chiefly US) A social gathering.

Synonyms

frisk play romp gambol caper lark rollick skylark disport sport cavort run around lark about

Etymology

From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).
The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
  2. noun A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
  3. noun A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
  4. verb To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

Etymology [D. vroolijk; akin to G. frölich, fr. froh, OHG. fr, Dan. fro, OS. fr, cf. Icel. fr swift; all perh. akin to Skr. pru to spring up.]

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

Sanskrit

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