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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lazy

/ˈleɪ̯zi(ː)/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms lazier laziest lazies lazying lazied

  1. adjective Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion. “Get out of bed, you lazy lout!”
  2. adjective Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely. “I love staying inside and reading on a lazy Sunday.”
  3. adjective Showing a lack of effort or care. “lazy writing”
  4. adjective Sluggish; slow-moving. “We strolled along beside a lazy stream.”
  5. adjective Droopy. “a lazy-eared rabbit”
  6. adjective (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
  7. adjective (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
  8. adjective (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required. “a lazy algorithm”
  9. verb (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
  10. noun A lazy person.
  11. noun (obsolete) Sloth (animal).

Synonyms

bone-idle idle indolent slothful work-shy fainéant inert lackadaisical lither otiose sluggish swear torpid

Antonyms

active diligent industrious

Etymology

Attested since 1540, origin uncertain. Probably from Low German and Middle Low German lasich (“slack, feeble, lazy”), from las, from Old Saxon lask, from Proto-Germanic *lasiwaz, *laskaz (“feeble, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *las- (“weak”).
Akin to Dutch leuzig (“lazy”), German lässig (“casual, nonchalant, laid-back, easy-going”), Old Norse lasinn (“limpy, tired, weak”), Old English lesu, lysu (“false, evil, base”). More at lush.
An alternative etymology traces lazy to Early Modern English laysy, a derivative of lay (plural lays + -y) in the same way that tipsy is derived from tip. See lay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work. Bacon.
  2. adjective Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream. "The night owl's lazy flight." Shak.

Etymology [OE. lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L. lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.]

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

Sanskrit

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