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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lavender

UK /ˈlæv.ən.dəː/ · US /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms lavenders lavendering lavendered

  1. noun Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
  2. noun A pale bluish purple or violet colour, like that of the lavender flower.
  3. noun (film, historical, uncountable) A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
  4. adjective Having a pale purple colour.
  5. adjective (originally US) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
  6. adjective (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
  7. verb (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun A female given name from English.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Georgia, United States, named after a storekeeper.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States, named after John Lavender.
  12. proper noun A subzone of Kallang, Singapore.

Synonyms

lilac lilac-colored

Etymology

From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“to wash”) due to the use of lavender in washing clothes.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
  2. noun The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress.

Etymology [OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It. lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf. Lavender.]

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