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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froth

/ˈfɹɒθ/ noun, verb

Forms froths frothing frothed

  1. noun Foam. “Froth is a very important feature of many types of coffee.”
  2. noun (figuratively) Unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel. “Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth?”
  3. noun The idle rich.
  4. noun (business) Highly speculative investment.
  5. verb (transitive) To create froth in (a liquid). “I like to froth my coffee for ten seconds exactly.”
  6. verb (intransitive) (of a liquid) To bubble.
  7. verb (transitive) To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
  8. verb (intransitive) (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger.
  9. verb (transitive) To cover with froth. “A horse froths his chain.”

Synonyms

foam fizz effervesce sparkle form bubbles spume suds

Etymology

From Middle English froth, frooth, froþ, likely a borrowing from Old Norse froða, from Proto-Germanic *fruþǭ; Old English āfrēoþan (“to foam, froth”) is from same Germanic root. Verb attested from late 14th century. Compare Swedish fradga.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.
  2. noun Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson.
  3. verb To cause to foam.
  4. verb To spit, vent, or eject, as froth.

Etymology [OE. frothe, Icel. frotha; akin to Dan. fraade, Sw. fradga, AS. afreothan to froth.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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