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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lair

/ˈlɛə̯/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms lairs lairing laired

  1. noun A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
  2. noun A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
  3. noun (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
  4. noun (UK dialectal) A bed or resting place.
  5. noun (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot.
  6. noun (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
  7. verb To rest; to dwell.
  8. verb To lay down.
  9. verb To bury.
  10. noun (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
  11. verb (transitive) To mire.
  12. verb (intransitive) To become mired.
  13. noun (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

burrow den holt hide-out

Etymology

From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”).

Backformation from lairy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
  2. noun A burying place. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Etymology [OE. leir, AS. leger; akin to D. leger, G. lager couch, lair, OHG. laga, Goth. ligrs, and to E. lie. See Lie to be prostrate, and cf. Layer, Leaguer.]

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

Sanskrit

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