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

anodyne

/ˈæn.ə.daɪn/ adjective, noun

Forms anodynes

  1. adjective (pharmacology) Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.
  2. adjective (figuratively) Soothing or relaxing. “Classical music is rather anodyne.”
  3. adjective (by extension) Noncontentious, blandly agreeable, unlikely to cause offence or debate.
  4. noun (pharmacology) Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
  5. noun (figuratively) A source of relaxation or comfort.

Synonyms

analgesic antalgesic antipain pain-relieving painkilling innocuous bland inoffensive uncontentious uncontroversial unexceptionable unprovocative harmless neutral painkiller pain pill analgetic

Etymology

From Middle English anodine, from Medieval Latin anōdynos (“stilling or relieving pain”), from Ancient Greek ἀνώδυνος (anṓdunos, “free from pain”), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὀδύνη (odúnē, “pain”).
Adjective sense “noncontentious” probably through French anodin (“harmless, trivial”), of same origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Serving to assuage pain; soothing.
  2. noun Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

Etymology [L. anodynus, Gr. anodin.]

Etymology [L. anodynon. See Anodyne, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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