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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jest

/d͡ʒɛst/ noun, verb

Also a form of just

Forms jests jesting jested

  1. noun (archaic, typically uncountable) An act performed for amusement; a joke. “I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.”
  2. noun (archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke. “Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.”
  3. noun (obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
  4. noun (obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
  5. verb To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone. “Surely you jest!”

Synonyms

prank gag laughingstock banter crack wisecrack witticism kid mock tease joke laugh jape jocularity

Etymology

From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A deed; an action; a gest. [Obs.]
  2. noun A mask; a pageant; an interlude. [Obs.] Nares.
  3. verb To take part in a merrymaking; --especially, to act in a mask or interlude. [Obs.] Shak.
  4. verb To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.

Etymology [OE. jeste, geste, deed, action, story, tale, OF. geste, LL. gesta, orig., exploits, neut. pl. from L. gestus, p. p. of gerere to bear, carry, accomplish, perform; perh. orig., to make to come, bring, and perh. akin to E. come. Cf. Gest a deed, Register, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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