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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jelly

/ˈd͡ʒɛli/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms jellies jellying jellied gelly

  1. noun (Commonwealth) A dessert made by boiling gelatine (or a plant-based alternative such as agar or carrageenan), sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set. “His mother prepared jelly for him and his friends for dessert.”
  2. noun (chiefly Canada, US) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin.
  3. noun A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.
  4. noun Any substance or object having the consistency of the dessert or preserve. “calf's-foot jelly”
  5. noun (zoology) A jellyfish.
  6. noun (slang, now rare) A pretty girl; a girlfriend.
  7. noun (US, slang) A large backside, especially a woman's.
  8. noun (colloquial) A jelly shoe.
  9. verb (transitive) To make into jelly.
  10. verb (transitive) To preserve in jelly.
  11. verb To wiggle like jelly.
  12. adjective (slang) Jealous.
  13. noun (India) Vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

Synonyms

jello Jell-O jam marmalade aspic gelatin jellify

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English gele. Doublet of gelee.

Clipping of jealous + -y (informal adjective ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.
  2. noun The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. Jelly bag, a bag through which the material for jelly is strained.
  3. verb To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.

Etymology [Formerly gelly, gely, F. gelée jelly, frost, fr. geler to freeze. L. gelare; akin to gelu frost. See Gelid.]

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