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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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leach

/liːt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of leech

Forms leaches leaching leached Latch Leech Leetch Leitch Litch Lytch

  1. noun A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  2. noun A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
  3. noun A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
  4. verb (transitive) To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid. “Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. “The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.”
  6. verb (figurative, intransitive) To bleed; to seep.
  7. proper noun A surname from Old English.
  8. proper noun A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
  10. proper noun A river in Gloucestershire, with a short stretch in Oxfordshire, England, which joins the Thames at Lechlade; in full, the River Leach.

Synonyms

leaching percolate strip

Etymology

From Middle English leche (“leachate; sluggish stream”), from Old English *lǣċ, *lǣċe (“muddy stream”), from Proto-Germanic *lēkijō (“a leak, drain, flow”)
(compare Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Cognate with Old English leċċan (“to water, moisten”), Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond”). More at leak, lake.

From Middle English *lechen, *lecchen, from Old English leċċan, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).

* Occupational surname for a physician, from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”).
* Topographic surname for someone who lived by a boggy stream, from Old English læcc (“boggy stream”) (related to Proto-Germanic *lekaną), or from several English placenames related to this (compare Leake).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See 3d Leech.
  2. noun A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
  3. noun A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. Leach tub, a wooden tub in which ashes are leached.
  4. verb To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.

Etymology [Cf. As. leáh lye, G. lauge. See Lye.]

Etymology [Written also leech and letch.]

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