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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

gram

/ˈɡɹæm/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of gramme

Forms grams gramming grammed the Gram gramme 'Gram

  1. noun A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
  2. noun A leguminous plant grown for its seeds, especially the chickpea.
  3. noun (uncountable) The seeds of these plants.
  4. noun (colloquial) Grandmother.
  5. noun (broadcasting, dated) A gramophone recording.
  6. proper noun A surname.
  7. proper noun A town in Denmark.
  8. proper noun (US) A male given name Alternative form of Graham.

Synonyms

gramme gm g Hans C. J. Gram

Etymology

From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”). Doublet of gramma.

From obsolete Portuguese gram (modern Portuguese grão), from Latin grānum. Doublet of corn, grain, granum, and grao.

Clipping of gramma.

Clipping of gramophone.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Angry. [Obs.] Havelok, the Dane.
  2. noun The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.
  3. noun The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. It is equal to 15.432 grains. See Grain, n., 4. Gram degree, or Gramme degree (Physics), a unit of heat, being the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of pure water one degree centigrade.

Etymology [AS. gram; akin to E. grim. sq. root35.]

Etymology [Pg. gro grain. See Grain.]

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

Sanskrit

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