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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girt

UK /ɡɜːt/ · US /ɡɝt/ noun, verb, adjective

Also a form of gird great

Forms girts girting girted

  1. noun A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
  2. verb To gird.
  3. verb To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
  4. verb To measure the girth of.
  5. adjective (nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
  6. verb (nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.
  7. adjective (Australia) (Of a country) To by surrounded by sea.

Etymology

Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”).

Inherited from Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”).

Ellipsis of girt by sea, from the Australian National Anthem

From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.
  2. adjective Bound by a cable; --used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
  3. noun Same as Girth.

Etymology [From Girt, n., cf. Girth, v.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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