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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gardener

UK /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/ · US /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of Gardiner Gardner

Forms gardeners Gardner Gardiner

  1. noun One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden. “"Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena”
  2. noun (slang, obsolete, derogatory) A coachman who drives badly.
  3. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.

Synonyms

nurseryman

Etymology

From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier.
See garden, and compare German Gärtner (“gardener”), which is equivalent to a derivative of the German cognate to English garden, Garten (“garden”), + -er.
Displaced native Old English wyrtweard (effectively "wortward").

Occupational surname from gardener.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.

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

Sanskrit

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

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