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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leaden

/ˈlɛdən/ adjective, verb

Forms leadens leadening leadened

  1. adjective (archaic) Made of lead.
  2. adjective (figurative) Resembling the color of lead, metallic or dark gray; (of daylight) dim, overcast. “The sky was dark and overcast, a leaden pall producing a deep gloom.”
  3. adjective (figurative) Resembling the density of lead, heavy.
  4. adjective (figurative) Resembling the ponderousness of lead, sluggish.
  5. verb (ambitransitive) To make or become dull or overcast.

Synonyms

lead plumbic plumbous leady saturnine bland colourless dim dingy dull faint lackluster muddy sad sober uncolorful unholiday wan weighted plodding heavy

Etymology

From Middle English leden, leaden, from Old English lēaden (“leaden, of lead”). Cognate with West Frisian leaden (“leaden”), Dutch loden (“leaden”). By surface analysis, lead + -en.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball.
  2. adjective Like lead in color, etc. ; as, a leaden sky.

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

Sanskrit

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