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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jewel

UK /ˈd͡ʒuːəl/ · US /d͡ʒul/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms jewels jeweling jewelling jeweled jewelled

  1. noun A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
  2. noun A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
  3. noun (figuratively) Anything precious or valuable. “Galveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.”
  4. noun (horology) A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
  5. noun Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Hypochrysops.
  6. noun (slang) The clitoris.
  7. noun (informal) A jewel box (optical disc container). “As a collector, I prefer jewels to digipaks.”
  8. verb To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
  9. proper noun A female given name from English from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.
  10. proper noun A male given name from English, a variant of Jewell, or from "jewel" like the female name.

Synonyms

gem precious stone bejewel

Etymology

From Middle English juel, jewel, juwel, jeuel, jowel, from Anglo-Norman juel, from Old French jouel, joel, joïel, hence French joyau, of uncertain origin. Perhaps based ultimately on Latin gaudium (“joy”), or on Latin iocus (“joke; jest”), or according to Pihan, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar). Compare Medieval Latin jocale. Displaced native Old English māþm.

From jewel.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An ornament of dress usually made of a precious metal, and having enamel or precious stones as a part of its design.
  2. noun A precious stone; a gem. Shak.
  3. verb To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels.

Etymology [OE. juel, jowel, OF. jouel, juel, joiel, F. joyau, dim. of OF. joie joy, jewel, F. joie joy. See Joy.]

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

Sanskrit

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