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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greens

/ɡɹiːnz/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of green

  1. noun Leaves and leaf-like parts of edible plants when eaten as vegetables or in salads. “salad greens”
  2. noun Green vegetables; edible plants or plant parts that contain chlorophyll. “starches, meats, and greens”
  3. noun Leafy plants that are used for decoration. “Yuletide greens”
  4. noun (military) The green dress uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
  5. proper noun (Australian politics) The Australian Greens, a left-wing, progressive green party in Australia
  6. proper noun (informal) Synonym of Green Party in various other contexts.
  7. proper noun (informal) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly green, particularly
  8. proper noun (historical) The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore green.

Synonyms

Green Party in various other contexts green leafy vegetable

Etymology

From Middle English grenes, equivalent to green + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Gräinieten (“vegetable”), West Frisian grienten (“vegetables, greens”), Dutch groenten (“vegetables, greens”), German Low German Gröönten (“vegetables, greens”), Danish grøntsager (“vegetables”), Swedish grönsaker (“vegetables”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin prasinī (“Leek-Greens”) or factio prasina (“the leek-green faction”) and Byzantine Greek Πράσινοι (Prásinoi, “Leek-Greens”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “greens”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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