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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leap

[ˈlɪi̯p] verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms leaps leaping leaped leapt lept lope lopen leep

  1. verb (intransitive) To jump.
  2. verb (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump. “to leap a wall or a ditch”
  3. verb (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
  4. verb (archaic) To copulate with (a human)
  5. verb (transitive) To cause to leap. “to leap a horse across a ditch”
  6. noun The act of leaping or jumping. “He made a leap across the river.”
  7. noun The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
  8. noun (collective) A group of leopards.
  9. noun (figuratively) A significant move forward.
  10. noun (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. “It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.”
  11. noun (mining) A fault.
  12. noun Copulation (by a male animal) with a female one.
  13. noun (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
  14. adjective (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
  15. noun A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
  16. noun Half a bushel.
  17. proper noun (computing) A solution stack consisting of the Linux operating system, Eucalyptus cloud, AppScale cloud computing framework, and Python programming language.
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bound hop jump spring leaping saltation bounce jump off

Etymology

From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop.
Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe (“to run”), Swedish löpa (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).

From Middle English lep, from Old English lēap (“basket”), from Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).

Scottish and English surname, from the noun leap (“basket”). Compare Leeper.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif.
  2. noun A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. verb To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. Bacon.
  4. verb To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.

Etymology [AS. leáp.]

Etymology [OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hleápan to leap, jump, run; akin to OS. ahl, OFries. hlapa, D. loopen, G. laufen, OHG. louffan, hlauffan, Icel. hlaupa, Sw. löpa, Dan. löbe, Goth. ushlaupan. Cf. Elope, Lope, Lapwing, Loaf to loiter.]

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

Sanskrit

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