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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household

UK /ˈhaʊshəʊld/ · US /ˈhaʊshoʊld/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms households

  1. noun (collective) All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
  2. noun Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
  3. noun Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
  4. noun (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
  5. adjective Belonging to the same house and family.
  6. adjective Found in or having its origin in a home.
  7. adjective Widely known to the public; familiar. “a household word; a household name”
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

ménage family house home

Etymology

From Middle English houshold. By surface analysis, house + hold.
Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”) (earlier huishoud), German Low German Huushollen (“household”) (Middle Low German hūsholt), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

English surname, from Middle English houshold (“household, family”), denoting someone who is a householder or is a member of a particular one.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
  2. noun A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. adjective Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs. Household bread, bread made in the house for common use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality.

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

Sanskrit

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

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