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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

lane

/leɪn/ noun, proper noun

Forms lanes

  1. noun (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare. “Penny Lane”
  2. noun A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. “There's a shortcut to the shops through this leafy lane.”
  3. noun A narrow road, as in the country.
  4. noun A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles. “Drivers should overtake in the outside lane”
  5. noun (athletics) A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart. “There are eight lanes on an Olympic running track.”
  6. noun (swimming) A similar division of a swimming pool using lines of coloured floats to keep swimmers apart. “a swimming lane”
  7. noun Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages. “the checkout lanes in a supermarket”
  8. noun A course designated for ships or aircraft. “shipping lane”
  9. proper noun A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a lane.
  10. proper noun A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic] anglicised from various Irish surnames.
  11. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  12. proper noun A female given name.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kootenai County, Idaho.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
  15. proper noun A minor city in Franklin County, Kansas.
  16. proper noun An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Nebraska, taken from the surname.

Synonyms

carriageway direction roadway side alley

Etymology

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

As an English surname, from lane; as an Irish surname, from several origins, including Laighin. See Lane.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Alone [Scot.] His lane, by himself; himself alone.
  2. noun A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, ras, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.

Etymology [See Lone.]

Etymology [OE. lane, lone, AS. lone, lone; akin to D. laan, OFries. lana, lona.]

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

Sanskrit

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