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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girdle

UK /ˈɡɜːdl̩/ · US /ˈɡɝdl̩/ noun, verb

Forms girdles girdling girdled

  1. noun That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference. “the girdle of the world”
  2. noun A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
  3. noun A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
  4. noun The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
  5. noun (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
  6. noun The clitellum of an earthworm.
  7. noun The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
  8. verb (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
  9. verb (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

Synonyms

cincture sash waistband waistcloth corset stays deaden gird

Etymology

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A griddle. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
  2. noun That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
  3. noun The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon.
  4. verb To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak.

Etymology [OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. gürtel, Icel. gyr. See Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf. Girth, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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